{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-staffordshire-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-staffordshire-electoral-changes-order-2004/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2818",
  "legislation_title": "The County of Staffordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/county-of-staffordshire-electoral-changes-order-2004",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Electoral divisions of the county of Staffordshire",
  "text": "(1) The existing electoral divisions of the county shall be abolished.\n(2) The county shall be divided into fifty-nine 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 the number specified in respect of the electoral division in column (3) of the Schedule.\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 Staffordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/1702). The area of the county of Staffordshire was altered by the Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/311) as amended by the Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/48), the Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands (County Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/402), the Hereford and Worcester, Staffordshire and West Midlands (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/492), and the Staffordshire (City of Stoke-on-Trent) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/1779)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2818/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:16:14.300737+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."
}