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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2096",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FIRE SERVICES\nMade 8th August 1996\nLaid before Parliament 9th August 1996\nComing into force 1st September 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 18(1) of the Fire Services Act 1947, and after consultation with the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c. 41; as amended by the Fire Services Act 1959 (c. 44)."
    }
  ],
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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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