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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-petty-sessional-divisions-etc-order-1973/schedule-1/part-II",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1973/1593",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Petty Sessional Divisions etc.) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-petty-sessional-divisions-etc-order-1973",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS",
  "text": "(1)\n(2)\n(3)\nMetropolitan district\nPetty sessional division\nArea comprised therein\nGreater Manchester\nRochdale\nMiddleton and Heywood\nThe boroughs of Heywood and Middleton\nRochdale\nThe county borough of Rochdale\nThe urban districts of Littleborough, Milnrow and Wardle\nSalford\nEccles\nThe boroughs of Eccles and Swinton and Pendlebury\nThe urban districts of Irlam and Worsley\nSalford\nThe county borough of Salford\nTameside\nAshton-under-Lyne\nThe boroughs of Ashton-under-Lyne and Mossley\nThe urban districts of Audenshaw, Denton and Droylsden\nSouth Tameside\nThe boroughs of Dukinfield, Hyde and Stalybridge\nThe urban district of Longdendale\nWigan\nLeigh\nThe borough of Leigh\nThe urban districts of Atherton and Tyldesley\nIn the urban district of Golborne, so much as lies in the district of Wigan\nWigan\nThe county borough of Wigan\nIn the Wigan division, so much as lies in the district of Wigan\nMerseyside\nSefton\nNorth Sefton\nThe district of Sefton except the areas in the new South Sefton division\nSouth Sefton\nThe county borough of Bootle\nThe urban district of Litherland\nIn the borough of Crosby, the area within which the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was authorised by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Seaforth Works) Act 1966 to carry out the work specified in section 16(2) thereof\nTyne and Wear\nSunderland\nHoughton-le-Spring\nIn the Chester-le-Street division, so much as lies in the district of Sunderland\nIn the Houghton-le-Spring division, so much as lies in the district of Sunderland\nSunderland\nThe county borough of Sunderland\nWest Midlands\nBirmingham\nBirmingham\nThe county borough of Birmingham\nSutton Coldfield\nThe borough of Sutton Coldfield\nDudley\nDudley\nThe county borough of Dudley\nHalesowen\nThe borough of Halesowen\nStourbridge\nThe borough of Stourbridge\nSandwell\nWarley\nThe county borough of Warley\nWest Bromwich\nThe county borough of West Bromwich\nWalsall\nAldridge and Brownhills\nThe urban district of Aldridge-Brownhills\nWalsall\nThe county borough of Walsall\nWest Yorkshire\nBradford\nBradford\nThe county borough of Bradford\nIn the Calder division, so much of the urban district of Queensbury and Shelf as lies in the district of Bradford\nKeighley\nThe county borough of Keighley\nThe Bingley division\nIn the Otley division, the urban district of Ilkley\nIn the Staincliffe East division, the urban district of Silsden and the parishes of Addingham, Kildwick and Steeton with Eastburn\nCalderdale\nBrighouse\nThe Brighouse Borough division\nCalder\nIn the Calder division, so much as lies in the district of Calderdale\nHalifax\nThe county borough of Halifax\nTodmorden\nThe Todmorden division\nKirklees\nBatley\nThe borough of Batley\nDewsbury\nThe county borough of Dewsbury\nThe Dewsbury (West Riding) division\nHuddersfield\nThe county borough of Huddersfield\nThe Agbrigg Upper division\nLeeds\nLeeds\nThe county borough of Leeds\nThe urban district of Horsforth\nMorley\nThe borough of Morley\nPudsey and Otley\nThe borough of Pudsey\nIn the Otley division, so much as lies in the district of Leeds\nSkyrack and Wetherby\nThe district of Leeds except the areas in the new divisions of Leeds, Morley and Pudsey and Otley\nWakefield\nPontefract\nThe borough of Pontefract\nIn the Osgoldcross division, so much as lies in the district of Wakefield\nWakefield\nThe county borough of Wakefield\nThe borough of Ossett\nIn the Staincross division, the parishes of Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, Ryehill and South Hiendley\nIn the Agbrigg Lower division, so much as lies in the district of Wakefield\nNote This Schedule does not contain an entry relating to the non-metropolitan county of the Isle of Wight or to the metropolitan district of Barnsley, Bolton, Bury, Coventry, Doncaster, Gateshead, Knowsley, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Oldham, Rotherham, St. Helens, Sheffield, Solihull, South Tyneside, Stockport, Trafford, Wirral or Wolverhampton; these areas are not divided into petty sessional divisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1974/403",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government (Petty Sessional Divisions etc.) (Amendment) Order 1974"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1593/schedule/1/part/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:00:41.287691+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."
}