{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-hertfordshire-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-hertfordshire-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2487",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-hertfordshire-electoral-changes-order-2000",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.\n(2) This article and articles 2 and 4 shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.\n(3) Article 3 of this Order shall come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election of a parish councillor for the parish of Abbots Langley to be held on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.\n(4) In this Order—\n“county” means the county of Hertfordshire;\n“existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;\nreferences to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to borough, city and district wards in the county;\nany reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994; and\nany reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Borough of Broxbourne (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2551), the Borough of Dacorum (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2552), the District of East Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2553), the Borough of Hertsmere (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2554), the District of North Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2555), the City of St Albans (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2558), the Borough of Stevenage (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2557), the District of Three Rivers (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2556), the Borough of Watford (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2559) and the District of Welwyn Hatfield (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2560)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2487/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:23:25.075060+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}