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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-and-wiltshire-fire-and-rescue-authority-combination-scheme-order-2015/schedule/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/435",
  "legislation_title": "The Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority (Combination Scheme) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-and-wiltshire-fire-and-rescue-authority-combination-scheme-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Each constituent authority shall appoint 2 representatives to be members of the Authority.\n(2) Each constituent authority shall, so far as is practicable, appoint such additional number of representatives to be members of the Authority as may be required to ensure that the total number of representatives is proportionate to the number of local government electors in its area in relation to the number of such electors in each of the other constituent authorities’ areas.\n(3) Each representative appointed by a constituent authority under sub-paragraph (1) must be appointed from its own members.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 7 substituted (6.6.2018) by The Fire and Rescue Authority (Membership) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/1165), art. 1(4), Sch. 2 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 7(3) inserted (18.3.2020) by The Combined Fire and Rescue Authorities (Membership and Allowances) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/168), reg. 1, Sch. 19 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 7 in force at 1.4.2015 in accordance with art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": ""
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/435/schedule/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:37.871028+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."
}