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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-social-services-and-food-and-drugs-order-1974/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/273",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Social Services and Food and Drugs) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-social-services-and-food-and-drugs-order-1974",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this order unless the context otherwise requires:—\n“the Act” means the Local Government Act 1972;\n“the Act of 1948” means the National Assistance Act 1948;\n“the Act of 1968” means the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968;\n“Wales” means the area consisting of the counties established by section 20 of the Act (new local government areas in Wales), and “England” does not include any area in any of those counties;\n“dissolved authority” means any local authority dissolved by section 1(10) or 20(6) of the Act, and includes a joint board abolished by section 14 of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973;\n“successor authority” means in relation to England the council of a non-metropolitan county or a metropolitan district, in relation to Wales the council of a county, and in relation to England and Wales for purposes of the Food and Drugs Act 1955, the council of a district or a food and drugs authority as defined in section 198(2) of the Act;\n“the Property Orders” means the Local Authorities (England) (Property etc.) Order 1973 and the Local Authorities (Wales) (Property etc.) Order 1973;\n“non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district of his former place of residence” means in relation to any person the non-metropolitan county or metropolitan district or in Wales, the county in which on the specified date is situated the place at which he was, or is deemed to have been ordinarily resident immediately prior to his admission to accommodation provided under Part III of the Act of 1948, or, as the case may be, at the time when services under section 29 of that Act, or under section 45 of the Act of 1968 were provided for him;\n“guardianship application” and “guardianship order” have the same meanings as in the Mental Health Act 1959.\n(2) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires, references to an enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended extended or applied by or under any other enactment.\n(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1973 III, p. 6401)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "(1973 III, p. 6452)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1974/273/article/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."
}