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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-constituencies-scotland-order-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1926",
  "legislation_title": "The European Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliamentary-constituencies-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect without modification to the recommendations contained in the supplementary report of the Boundary Commission for Scotland dated 6th June 1996. Article 2 of, and the Schedule to, this Order set out the European Parliamentary Constituencies into which Scotland will be divided, but these constituencies will only have effect from the next European Parliamentary general election (Article 1(2)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1926/note",
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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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