{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-miscellaneous-provision-order-1975/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-miscellaneous-provision-order-1975/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1975/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Miscellaneous Provision) Order 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-miscellaneous-provision-order-1975",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Alteration of local boundaries consequent on alteration of water-course",
  "text": "Subsections (2) and (3) of section 73 of the Act (alteration of local boundaries consequent on alteration of water-courses) shall apply where, in exercise of any power conferred by the Land Drainage Act 1930 or any other enactment, water-courses forming boundary lines between two or more areas, of local government had been straightened, widened or otherwise altered, so as to affect their character as boundary lines, before 1st April 1974.\nIn the application of the said subsection (2) , “in the notice” shall be omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1975/244/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:15:57.573440+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."
}