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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bedfordshire-fire-services-combination-scheme-variation-order-2012/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2879",
  "legislation_title": "The Bedfordshire Fire Services (Combination Scheme) (Variation) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bedfordshire-fire-services-combination-scheme-variation-order-2012",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Bedfordshire Fire Services (Combination Scheme) (Variation) Order 2012.\n(2) This Order shall come into force on 17th December 2012.\n(3) In this Order, “the Authority” means the authority constituted by the Bedfordshire Fire Services Combination Scheme, as brought into effect by, and set out in the Schedule to, the Bedfordshire Fire Services (Combined Scheme) Order 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/2918."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2879/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:13:12.443398+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."
}