{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-bath-and-north-east-somerset-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-bath-and-north-east-somerset-electoral-changes-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2700",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Bath and North East Somerset (Electoral Changes) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-bath-and-north-east-somerset-electoral-changes-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of Bath and North East Somerset",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.\n(2) The district shall be divided into 37 wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of tthe Schedule.\n(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to the parishes or, where no area is so described, 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 that ward in column (3) of the Schedule.\n(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other 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 Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/493)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2700/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:16:24.677087+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."
}