{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kent-district-boundaries-order-1987/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kent-district-boundaries-order-1987/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/305",
  "legislation_title": "The Kent (District Boundaries) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/kent-district-boundaries-order-1987",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "County electoral arrangements within the borough of Dartford",
  "text": "(1) This article shall have effect from the fourth day after the ordinary day of elections in 1989.\n(2) The electoral divisions of the county of Kent which immediately before 1st April 1987 consisted of areas within the borough of Dartford shall be abolished. The area of the borough of Dartford as altered by articles 10 and 11 above shall be divided into 5 county electoral divisions which shall bear the names set out in the first column of the Table below, and each electoral division shall consist of the areas of the wards of the borough of Dartford specified in the second column—\nName of county electoral division\nArea of county electoral division\nDartford North\nThe Brent, Joyce Green, Littlebrook and Newtown wards.\nDartford South East\nThe Darenth, Longfield, Southfleet and Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley wards.\nDartford South West\nThe Maypole, Princes, Wilmington Central, Wilmington East and Wilmington West wards.\nDartford West\nThe Gundulf, Heath, Miskin and Priory wards.\nSwanscombe and Stone\nThe Bean, Galley Hill, Greenhithe, Horns Cross, Stone and Swanscombe wards.\n(3) The number of councillors to be elected for each electoral division constituted by paragraph (2) above shall be 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/305/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:31:52.384423+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."
}