{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-stroud-parishes-and-electoral-changes-order-2001/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3883",
  "legislation_title": "The District of Stroud (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/district-of-stroud-parishes-and-electoral-changes-order-2001",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the District of Stroud (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 2001.\n(2) This article and articles 3, 4, 7 and 12 shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 2nd May 2002, on the day after that on which it is made;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 2nd May 2002.\n(3) Article 2 shall come into force on 1st April 2002.\n(4) Articles 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of this Order shall come into force—\n(a) for the purposes of proceedings preliminary or relating to the election of parish councillors for the parishes of Cam, Minchinhampton, Rodborough, Stroud, Thrupp and Dursley, to be held on 1st May 2003, on 15th October 2002;\n(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.\n(5) In this Order—\n“district” means the district of Stroud;\n“existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;\nany reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions marked “Map of the District of Stroud (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 2001”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994; and\nany reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3883/article/1",
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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."
}