{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northumberland-and-tyne-and-wear-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1992/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northumberland-and-tyne-and-wear-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1992/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3055",
  "legislation_title": "The Northumberland and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northumberland-and-tyne-and-wear-county-and-district-boundaries-order-1992",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“district” includes a borough, a metropolitan borough and a city;\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county of Northumber land;\n“the map” means one or more of the 9 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Northumberland and Tyne and Wear (County and District Boundaries) Order 1992”, duly numbered for reference, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Northumberland” means the county of Northumberland, and any reference to Blyth Valley or to Castle Morpeth is a reference to the Northumberland district of that name;\n“Tyne and Wear” means the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, “Newcastle” means the district of Newcastle upon Tyne in that county, and “North Tyneside” means the district of that name in that county;\nany 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 to which an area is transferred.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Every non-metropolitan county is divided into electoral divisons for the purposes of the election of county councillors (section 6(2)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Every district (whether metropolitan or non-metropolitan) is divided into wards for the purposes of the election of district councillors (section 6(2)(b) and (c) of the Local Government Act 1972)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3055/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:24.951932+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."
}