{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2010/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2010/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/1536",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Justice Areas Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-justice-areas-order-2010",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "New Areas",
  "text": "(1) The existing areas of Lincoln District, Gainsborough and Sleaford are combined to become a new area named West Lincolnshire.\n(2) The existing areas of Grantham, Bourne and Stamford, and Elloes are combined to become a new area named South Lincolnshire.\n(3) The existing areas of Boston, Skegness and the Wolds are combined to become a new area named East Lincolnshire.\n(4) Accordingly, the Schedule to the Local Justice Areas Order 2005 is amended as follows:-\n(a) delete “Boston” “Bourne and Stamford” “Elloes” “Gainsborough” “Grantham” “Lincoln District” “Skegness” “Sleaford” and “Wolds” and\n(b) after “East Kent” insert “East Lincolnshire”.\n(c) After “South Lakeland” insert “South Lincolnshire”\n(d) After “West Hertfordshire” insert “ West Lincolnshire”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/554, amended by S.I. 2005/2949, 2006/1839, 2006/2315, 2007/2284 and 2009/2080."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1536/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:39:30.214424+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."
}