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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-probation-areas-bedfordshire-order-1997/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2623",
  "legislation_title": "The Combined Probation Areas (Bedfordshire) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-probation-areas-bedfordshire-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Combined Probation Areas Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1713), so as to reduce the number of justices on the committee for the Bedfordshire Area from 14 to 8. The petty sessional divisions of Ampthill and Leighton Buzzard were formerly represented by 1 justice each. The petty sessional divisions of Biggleswade and Dunstable were represented by 2 justices and those of Bedford and Luton by 4 justices each.\nThe Order also provides (pursuant to paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the 1993 Act), for the co-option of a member from each of Bedfordshire County and Luton Borough Councils to the committee.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2623/note",
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  "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."
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