{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffordshire-warwickshire-and-west-midlands-county-boundaries-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffordshire-warwickshire-and-west-midlands-county-boundaries-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/402",
  "legislation_title": "The Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands (County Boundaries) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffordshire-warwickshire-and-west-midlands-county-boundaries-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“district” includes a city;\n“electoral division” means an electoral division of the county to which an area is transferred by this Order;\n“the map” means one of the 4 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands (County Boundaries) Order 1993”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;\n“Staffordshire” means the county of Staffordshire, and any reference to Lichfield is a reference to the Staffordshire district of that name;\n“Warwickshire” means the county of Warwickshire, except in the expression “North Warwickshire”, where it means the Warwickshire district of that name;\n“West Midlands” means the metropolitan county of West Midlands, and “Birmingham” means the city of Birmingham 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 from or 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 divisions 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 (sections 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/1993/402/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:04:17.653634+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."
}