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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-members-fund-order-1981/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-members-fund-order-1981/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/748",
  "legislation_title": "The House of Commons Members' Fund Order 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-members-fund-order-1981",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order authorises an increase of £193,000 from £22,000 to £215,000 in the maximum amount of annual Exchequer contributions to the House of Commons Members' Fund but excludes the whole of the increase from the power of the House of Commons to appropriate part of the contributions for the alleviation of special hardship.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/748/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:38:54.721225+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."
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