{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hereford-and-worcester-structural-boundary-and-electoral-changes-order-1996/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hereford-and-worcester-structural-boundary-and-electoral-changes-order-1996/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1867",
  "legislation_title": "The Hereford and Worcester (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hereford-and-worcester-structural-boundary-and-electoral-changes-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Constitution of new districts",
  "text": "(1) A new non-metropolitan district of Malvern Hills shall be constituted and shall comprise the existing areas mentioned in Schedule 1.\n(2) A new non-metropolitan district of Herefordshire shall be constituted and shall comprise the areas of—\n(a) the existing city of Hereford;\n(b) the existing district of Leominster, except the areas in that district mentioned in Schedule 1;\n(c) the existing district of Malvern Hills, except the areas in that district mentioned in Schedule 1; and\n(d) the existing district of South Herefordshire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The non-metropolitan district of Hereford has the status of a city."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1867/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:48.872135+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."
}