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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-probation-areas-dorset-order-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-probation-areas-dorset-order-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2135",
  "legislation_title": "The Combined Probation Areas (Dorset) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/combined-probation-areas-dorset-order-1987",
  "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 to take account of the reorganisation of the petty sessional divisions of Blandford, Shaftesbury and Sturminster into the new petty sessional divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and of Shaftesbury, effected by the Petty Sessional Divisions (Dorset) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1739) which comes into operation on 1st January 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2135/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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