{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-borough-of-kingston-upon-thames-electoral-changes-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1767",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (Electoral Changes) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-borough-of-kingston-upon-thames-electoral-changes-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of the Royal borough of Kingston upon Thames",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the borough shall be abolished.\n(2) The borough shall be divided into sixteen wards which shall bear the names set out in the Schedule.\n(3) The wards shall comprise the areas designated on the map by reference to the names of the wards and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be three.\n(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/1588)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1767/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:31.281210+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."
}