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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greater-manchester-combined-authority-fire-and-rescue-functions-order-2017/schedule/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111153888",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Fire and Rescue Functions) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greater-manchester-combined-authority-fire-and-rescue-functions-order-2017",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Local Government Act 1972",
  "text": "In section 138(5) of the Local Government Act 1972 (powers of principal councils with respect to emergencies or disasters), the reference to “metropolitan county fire and rescue authority” is to apply as if it included “the GMCA as a fire and rescue authority”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.70. Subsection (5) was inserted by section 156(3) of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c. 42) and the words “metropolitan county fire and rescue authority” were substituted by virtue of paragraph 10(1), (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. Other amendments have been made to section 138 which are not relevant to this Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2017/9780111153888/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:06:56.460211+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."
}