{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancashire-and-merseyside-county-boundaries-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancashire-and-merseyside-county-boundaries-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1206",
  "legislation_title": "The Lancashire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lancashire-and-merseyside-county-boundaries-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“district” includes a metropolitan borough;\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county of Lancashire;\n“Lancashire” means the county of Lancashire, except in the expression “West Lancashire”, where it means the district of that name in that county;\n“the map” means one of the 6 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Lancashire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1993”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Merseyside” means the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and any reference to Sefton is a reference to the district of that name in that county; any reference to an area as unparished is a reference to that area not forming part of any parish; and\n“ward” means a ward of the district from or to which an area is 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/1993/1206/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:57:13.135898+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."
}