{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-basildon-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-basildon-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2443",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Basildon (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-basildon-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of district of Basildon",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.\n(2) The district shall be divided into sixteen 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 that 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 District of Basildon (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/87)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2443/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:42:29.155756+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."
}