{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tower-hamlets-electoral-changes-order-2013/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1786",
  "legislation_title": "The Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tower-hamlets-electoral-changes-order-2013",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Wards of the London borough of Tower Hamlets and number of councillors",
  "text": "(1) The existing wards of the London borough of Tower Hamlets are abolished.\n(2) The London borough is divided into 20 wards, each listed by name in the first column of the Schedule.\n(3) Each ward comprises the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward.\n(4) The number of councillors to be elected for each ward is the number specified in relation to that ward in the second column of the Schedule.\n(5) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it is to be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.\n(6) In this article, “map” means the map marked “Map referred to in the Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013”, prints of which are available for inspection at the principal office of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1786/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:30.157547+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."
}