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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cambridgeshire-city-of-peterborough-structural-boundary-and-electoral-changes-order-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1878",
  "legislation_title": "The Cambridgeshire (City of Peterborough) (Structural, Boundary and Electoral Changes) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cambridgeshire-city-of-peterborough-structural-boundary-and-electoral-changes-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Constitution of new county of Peterborough",
  "text": "(1) Peterborough shall cease to form part of Cambridgeshire.\n(2) A new county shall be constituted comprising the area of Peterborough and shall be named the county of Peterborough.\n(3) Section 2(1) of the 1972 Act (which provides that every county shall have a council) shall not apply in relation to the county of Peterborough.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1878/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:45.191809+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."
}