{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-epping-forest-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-epping-forest-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2444",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Epping Forest (Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-epping-forest-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of the district of Epping Forest",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the district of Epping Forest shall be abolished.\n(2) The district shall be divided into thirty-two wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.\n(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to parishes, or parishes and parish wards, or parish wards or, where an area is not 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 the ward in column (3) 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 Epping Forest (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/1415)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2444/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:42:17.071023+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."
}