{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-adur-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-adur-electoral-changes-order-2002/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2991",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Adur (Electoral Changes) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-adur-electoral-changes-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the district of Adur",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.\n(2) The district shall be divided into fourteen wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.\n(3) The wards shall comprise the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (2) of Schedule 1.\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 District of Adur (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1434)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2991/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:38:25.997772+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."
}