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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-12/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/23",
  "legislation_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026",
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  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 65 (co-operation between certain councils and London regional transport), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) Where the whole or any part of the area of a county council in England falls within the area of a combined authority or a combined county authority, references in this section to the council are—\n(a) where the combined authority or combined county authority has completed its first full financial year, references to the combined authority or combined county authority (instead of to the council), and\n(b) until that time, references to the combined authority or combined county authority as well as to the council.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 18 in force at Royal Assent, see s. 108(1)(3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/12/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:57.197615+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."
}