{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-kennet-electoral-changes-order-1999/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-kennet-electoral-changes-order-1999/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2922",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Kennet (Electoral Changes) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-kennet-electoral-changes-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of Kennet. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.\nArticle 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 29 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 3 to 10 make electoral changes in the towns of Devizes and Marlborough, and in the parishes of Bishops Cannings, Enford, Grafton, Ludgershall, Pewsey and Wilcot.\nArticle 11 provides for six councillors to be elected for the parish of Ham.\nArticle 12 revokes the District of Kennet (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976.\nThe areas of the new district, town and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Kennet District Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2922/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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