{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hampshire-and-surrey-county-boundaries-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hampshire-and-surrey-county-boundaries-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2494",
  "legislation_title": "The Hampshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hampshire-and-surrey-county-boundaries-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“district” means district or borough, as the case may be;\n“Hampshire” means the county of Hampshire, except in the expression\n“East Hampshire”, where it means the district of East Hampshire in that county;\n“Hart” means the Hampshire district of Hart, and\n“Rushmoor” means the Hampshire district of Rushmoor;\n“map” means one of the 9 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked\n“Maps of the Hampshire and Surrey (County Boundaries) Order 1991”, duly numbered for reference and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Surrey” means the county of Surrey,\n“Guildford” means the Surrey district of Guildford, and\n“Waverley” means the Surrey district of Waverley;\nany reference to an electoral division is a reference to an electoral division of the county to which an area is transferred by this Order; and\nany reference to a ward is a reference to a ward of the district to which an area is so transferred, except in the expression “parish ward”, where it means a ward of the parish to which an area is transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2494/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:35:01.906356+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."
}