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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lieutenancies-act-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/23",
  "legislation_title": "Lieutenancies Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lieutenancies-act-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The local government areas (or parts of local government areas) described in each entry in the second column of the following Table shall be regarded for the purposes of this Act as one county to be known by the name specified in the first column.\nTable\nCounty for the purposes of this Act\nLocal government areas\nBedfordshire\nBedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton\nBuckinghamshire\nBuckinghamshire and Milton Keynes\nCambridgeshire\nCambridgeshire and Peterborough\nCheshire\nCheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, and, Halton and Warrington\nCumbria\nCumberland, Westmorland and Furness\nDerbyshire\nDerbyshire and Derby\nDevon\nDevon, Plymouth and Torbay\nDorset\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset\nDurham\nDurham, Darlington, Hartlepool and so much of Stockton-on-Tees as lies north of the line for the time being of the centre of the River Tees\nThe East Riding of Yorkshire\nThe East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull (City of)\nEast Sussex\nEast Sussex and Brighton and Hove\nEssex\nEssex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock\nGloucestershire\nGloucestershire and South Gloucestershire\nHampshire\nHampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton\nKent\nKent and the Medway Towns\nLancashire\nLancashire, Blackburn and Blackpool\nLeicestershire\nLeicestershire and Leicester\nLincolnshire\nLincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire\nNorthamptonshire\nNorth Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire\nNorth Yorkshire\nNorth Yorkshire, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, York and so much of Stockton-on-Tees as lies south of the line for the time being of the centre of the River Tees\nNottinghamshire\nNottinghamshire and Nottingham\nShropshire\nShropshire and The Wrekin\nSomerset\nSomerset, Bath and North East Somerset and North Somerset.\nStaffordshire\nStaffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent\nWiltshire\nWiltshire and Thamesdown.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 substituted (1.4.2009) by Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/837), arts. 1, 10(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Entries in Sch. 1 para. 3 inserted (E.W.) (1.4.1998) by S.I. 1997/1992, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 substituted (1.4.2009) by Local Government (Structural Changes) (Miscellaneous Amendments and Other Provision) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/837), arts. 1, 10(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 inserted (E.W.) (18.3.2022) by The Cumbria (Structural Changes) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/331), arts. 1(1), 28"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 substituted (E.W.) (1.4.2019) by The Local Government (Structural and Boundary Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/615), arts. 1, 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 3 inserted (1.4.2021) by The Northamptonshire (Structural Changes) (Supplementary Provision and Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/272), arts. 1, 2"
    }
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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."
}