{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-somerset-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-somerset-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2491",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-somerset-electoral-changes-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Divisions of the county of Somerset",
  "text": "(1) The existing divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into fifty-eight divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.\n(3) The divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to wards, wards and parishes, wards and parish wards or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each 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 Somerset (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/1725)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2491/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:23:22.493277+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."
}