# The Greater Manchester and Lancashire (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993, Article 2: Interpretation


In this Order—
“district” includes a borough, a metropolitan borough;
“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county of Lancashire;
“Greater Manchester” means the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, and any reference to Bury or to Rochdale is a reference to the district of that name in that county;
“Lancashire” means the county of Lancashire, and any reference to Rossendale is a reference to the district of that name in that county;
“the map” means one of the 3 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Greater Manchester and Lancashire (County and Metropolitan Borough Boundaries) Order 1993”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976; and
“ward” means a ward of the district from or to which an area is transferred by this order, except in the expression “parish ward”, where it means a ward of the parish to which an area is transferred.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/902/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-and-lancashire-county-and-metropolitan-borough-boundaries-order-1993/article-2
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