{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-leicestershire-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-leicestershire-electoral-changes-order-2005/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/171",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Leicestershire (Electoral Changes) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-leicestershire-electoral-changes-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order –\n“county” means the county of Leicestershire;\n“existing”, in relation to an electoral division or ward, means the electoral division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;\nreferences to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to district and borough wards in the county;\nany reference to the map is a reference to the map marked “Map referred to in the County of Leicestershire (Electoral Changes) Order 2005”, of which prints are available for inspection at –\n(a) the principal office of the Electoral Commission; and\n(b) the offices of Leicestershire County Council; 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 District of Blaby (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2882), the Borough of Charnwood (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2886), the District of Harborough (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2597), the Borough of Hinckley and Bosworth (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2888), the Borough of Melton (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2599), the District of North West Leicestershire (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2598) and the Borough of Oadby and Wigston (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2889)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/171/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:09.117726+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."
}