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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greater-manchester-combined-authority-functions-and-amendment-order-2019/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111179543",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-greater-manchester-combined-authority-functions-and-amendment-order-2019",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2000 Act” means the Transport Act 2000;\n“the 2011 Order” means the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011;\n“constituent councils” means the district councils for the local government areas of Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan;\n“GMCA” means the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, a body corporate established by the 2011 Order; and\n“the Mayor” means the mayor for the area of the GMCA.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 3(2) of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011provides that “the combined authority is to be a body corporate and to be known as the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (“the GMCA”)”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 3 of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Election of Mayor with Police and Crime Commissioner Functions) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/448) provides for there to be a mayor for the area of the GMCA."
    }
  ],
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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."
}