{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-lancashire-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-lancashire-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/170",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Lancashire (Electoral Changes) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-lancashire-electoral-changes-order-2005",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral divisions of the county of Lancashire",
  "text": "(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into eighty-four electoral divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.\n(3) The electoral divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to wards, parishes, or parish wards or, where an area is not so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the electoral division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each electoral division shall be one.\n(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the County of Lancashire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/43). The area of the county of Lancashire was altered by the Greater Manchester and Lancashire (Areas) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1649), the Cumbria and Lancashire (County Boundaries) Order 1988 (S.I. 1988/2179), the Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/378), the Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/436), the Lancashire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1206) and the Lancashire (Boroughs of Blackburn and Blackpool) (Structural Change) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/1868)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/170/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:09.918451+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."
}