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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-goods-and-services-public-bodies-england-order-2014/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1197",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) (England) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-goods-and-services-public-bodies-england-order-2014",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation as a public body",
  "text": "The Community Rehabilitation Companies listed in the Schedule to this Order and the National Probation Service, being persons appearing to the Secretaries of States to be exercising functions of a public nature, are public bodies for the purposes of section 1 of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970, in its application to England.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The National Probation Service is a business unit of the National Offender Management Service (an Executive Agency of the Ministry of Justice)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1197/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:16:50.352879+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."
}