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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maidstone-electoral-changes-order-2025/article-2/enacted",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/148",
  "legislation_title": "The Maidstone (Electoral Changes) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/maidstone-electoral-changes-order-2025/enacted",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Appended Map” means the map in the Schedule to this Order and any reference to an area marked on the Appended Map is a reference to an area identified on that map by way of the letter assigned to it;\n“the Council’s Order” means the Maidstone Borough (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2023;\n“the Map” means the map in Schedule 2 to the Council’s Order and any reference to an “area” is a reference to an area identified on a sheet of that map by way of the letter assigned to it.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "enacted",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (2.4.2025) by The Maidstone (Electoral Changes) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/445), arts. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 12.2.2025, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "That Order was made by Maidstone Borough Council on 29th November 2023, and is available for inspection at reasonable times at the offices of Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone House, King Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 6JQ. Such Orders are not required to be made by statutory instrument. It is also available online at https://www.lgbce.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-02/MBC_Reorganisation_of_Community_Governance_Order_2023.pdf."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/148/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:35.451987+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."
}