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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-bromsgrove-electoral-changes-order-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/158",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Bromsgrove (Electoral Changes) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-bromsgrove-electoral-changes-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect, with modifications, to recommendations by the Boundary Committee for England, a committee of the Electoral Commission, for electoral changes in the district of Bromsgrove.\nThe modifications concern the boundaries between the Charford and Stoke Heath district wards, between the Furlongs and Woodvale district wards and between the Stoke Prior and Stoke Heath district wards.\nThe changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.\nArticle 3 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 23 new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.\nArticles 4 to 9 make electoral changes in the parishes of Belbroughton, Catshill and North Marlbrook, Lickey and Blackwell, Lickey End, Stoke Prior and Wythall.\nArticle 11 obliges the Electoral Registration Officer to make any necessary amendments to the electoral register to reflect the new electoral arrangements.\nArticle 12 revokes the District of Bromsgrove (Electoral Arrangments) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/1277), with the exception of article 8, and the District of Bromsgrove (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/44).\nThe areas of the new district and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 2. Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Bromsgrove District Council and at the principal office of the Electoral Commission at Trevelyan House, Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2HW.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/158/note",
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  "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."
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