The authors investigate the magnetic configuration of a three-turn helical magnetic field through which an axial current flows and which has three spatial magnetic axes. It is shown that, near the spatial axes, the cross-sections of the magnetic surfaces are ellipses lying in the planes perpendicular to the axes. The parameter values for which the configuration concerned possesses, near one of the spatial axes, an angle of torsion of the magnetic field lines, shear and minimum average magnetic field is considered.