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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-goods-and-services-public-bodies-order-1972/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1972/853",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Goods and Services) (Public Bodies) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-goods-and-services-public-bodies-order-1972",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of public bodies",
  "text": "The persons and descriptions of person specified in the schedule to this order, being persons and descriptions of persons appearing to the Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales to be exercising functions of a public nature, shall be public bodies for the purposes of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 in its application to England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/853/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:30:35.919184+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."
}