{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-and-surrey-county-and-london-borough-boundaries-no4-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-and-surrey-county-and-london-borough-boundaries-no4-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1391",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No.4) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-london-and-surrey-county-and-london-borough-boundaries-no4-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of the country of Surrey;\n“Hounslow” means the London borough of Hounslow;\n“the map” means one or more of the 13 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Greater London and Surrey (County and London Borough Boundaries) (No. 4) Order 1993”, duly numbered for reference, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Richmond” means the London borough of Richmond Upon Thames;\n“Surrey” means the county of Surrey, and any reference to Spelthorne is a reference to the Surrey borough of that name; and\n“ward” means a ward of the borough or London borough from or to which an area is transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Every non-metropolitan county is divided into electoral divisions for the purposes of the election of county councillors (section 6(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972). Greater London is not so divided."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Every district (including a London borough) is divided into wards for the purposes of the election of district councillors (section 6(2)(b) and (c) of the Local Government Act 1972)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/1391/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:55:56.591089+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."
}