{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-mendip-electoral-changes-order-2007/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-mendip-electoral-changes-order-2007/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/141",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Mendip (Electoral Changes) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-mendip-electoral-changes-order-2007",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Wards of the district of Mendip",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.\n(2) The district shall be divided into thirty-four wards which shall be named as set out in column (1) of the Schedule.\n(3) Each ward shall comprise the area described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to parishes and parish wards.\n(4) The number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of the Schedule.\n(5) 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 Mendip (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2464)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/141/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:06:46.360344+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."
}