{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-non-metropolitan-districts-definition-order-1972/schedule/part-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-non-metropolitan-districts-definition-order-1972/schedule/part-38.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/2039",
  "legislation_title": "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-non-metropolitan-districts-definition-order-1972",
  "path": "schedule/part/38",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "COUNTY OF WEST SUSSEX",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\nReference number of district\nArea of district by reference to existing administrative areas\n1\nIn the administrative county of East Sussex, in the rural district of Cuckfield, so much of the parishes of Slaugham and Worth as lies in the designated area of Crawley New Town;\nIn the administrative county of Surrey, in the rural district of Dorking and Horley, the parish of Charlwood, except the detached part, and so much of the parish of Horley as lies south of the boundary determined by the order to be made by the Secretary of State under paragraph 12 of Part III of Schedule 1 to the Act;\nIn the administrative county of West Sussex, the urban district of Crawley.\n2\nIn the administrative county of West Sussex—\nthe borough of Chichester;\nthe rural districts of Midhurst and Petworth;\nthe rural district of Chichester, except the parishes in district 5.\n3\nIn the administrative county of West Sussex—\nthe urban district of Horsham;\nthe rural districts of Chanctonbury and Horsham.\n4\nIn the administrative county of East Sussex—\nthe urban districts of Burgess Hill, Cuckfield and East Grinstead;\nthe rural district of Cuckfield, except so much of the parishes of Slaugham and Worth as is in district 1.\n5\nIn the administrative county of West Sussex—\nthe borough of Arundel;\nthe urban districts of Bognor Regis and Littlehampton;\nthe rural district of Worthing, except the parishes in district 7;\nin the rural district of Chichester, the parishes of Aldingbourne, Barnham, Bersted, Climping, Eastergate, Ford, Madehurst, Middleton-on-Sea, Pagham, Slindon, Tortington, Walberton and Yapton.\n6\nIn the administrative county of West Sussex, the borough of Worthing.\n7\nIn the administrative county of West Sussex—\nthe urban districts of Shoreham-by-Sea and Southwick;\nin the rural district of Worthing, the parishes of Coombes, Lancing and Sompting.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/2039/schedule/part/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:21:20.670452+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."
}