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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-districts-wales-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-districts-wales-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/661",
  "legislation_title": "The Coroners' Districts (Wales) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-districts-wales-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CORONERS\nMade 7th March 1996\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1996\nComing into force 1st April 1996\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 4A(1) and (7) of the Coroners Act 1988 and section 25 of the Welsh Language Act 1993, and after consulting the councils and coroners appearing to him to be affected by this Order, and such other persons as he thinks appropriate, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 13; section 4A was inserted by paragraph 82(5) of Schedule 16 to the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and the powers in subsections (1) and (7) of that section have been brought into force by S.I. 1995/852, Schedule 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 38."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/661/introduction",
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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."
}