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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2017/9780111155349",
  "legislation_title": "The West Midlands Combined Authority (Functions and Amendment) Order 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-west-midlands-combined-authority-functions-and-amendment-order-2017",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Incidental provisions",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 1989 Act shall apply in relation to a Corporation as if the Corporation were a local authority—\n(a) section 1 (disqualification and political restriction of certain officers and staff); and\n(b) sections 2 and 3A (politically restricted posts and exemptions from restriction) so far as they have effect for the purposes of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1 was amended by section 80 of the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), section 31 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), and section 99 of, and Schedule 16 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 3A was inserted by section 202 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 and amended by Schedule 7 to the 2009 Act and Schedules 4 and 25 to the 2011 Act."
    }
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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."
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