{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hereford-and-worcester-district-boundaries-order-1988/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hereford-and-worcester-district-boundaries-order-1988/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/259",
  "legislation_title": "The Hereford and Worcester (District Boundaries) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hereford-and-worcester-district-boundaries-order-1988",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Hereford and Worcester (District Boundaries) Order 1988.\n(2) This Order shall come into force on 23rd March 1988 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) (coming into operation of order) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 ().\n(3) For all other purposes this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/259/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:11:40.221284+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."
}