{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strathclyde-region-electoral-arrangements-order-1993/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strathclyde-region-electoral-arrangements-order-1993/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2439",
  "legislation_title": "The Strathclyde Region (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/strathclyde-region-electoral-arrangements-order-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In the Schedule to this Order–\n(a) a reference to–\n(i) an electoral division should be construed as a reference to that electoral division as constituted in this Order;\n(ii) a road, footpath, railway line, river, burn or canal shall, where the context so admits, be construed as the centre line of the feature concerned; and\n(iii) the boundary or boundaries of a parish is to a line corresponding as nearly as may be to the line of the boundary or boundaries of the parish concerned as published on the monochrome edition of the 1:50,000 First Series Ordnance Survey Maps which were published between 1976 and 1984;\n(b) the expedient of defining a line beyond Mean Low Water Springs has been adopted to apportion islands to the appropriate electoral division; and\n(c) the following abbreviations are used:–\n“ED” for Electoral Division;\n“MLWS” for the shoreline at Mean Low Water Springs; and\n“grid reference” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "These Maps are no longer published by Ordnance Survey; but copies of them can be obtained by post, upon payment of a charge, from Ordnance Survey as specified in the Explanatory Note."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2439/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:03.243198+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."
}