{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-fire-services-combination-scheme-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-fire-services-combination-scheme-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2920",
  "legislation_title": "The Dorset Fire Services (Combination Scheme) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-fire-services-combination-scheme-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of the Local Government Act 1972, namely sections 82(1), 94 to 98, 101 to 106, 99 and Part VI of Schedule 12 shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2), apply to the Authority and its members as if references in those provisions to a principal council or to a local authority, other than references to a parish council, were references to the Authority.\n(2) Section 101(6) of the Local Government Act 1972 shall have effect, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1), as if for the words “levying, or issuing a precept for, a rate” there were substituted the words “assessing or varying the contributions to be paid into the combined fire service fund by the constituent authorities”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 20 in force at 20.11.1996, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2920/schedule/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:50.063762+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."
}