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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972/schedule-26/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1972/70",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government Act 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1972",
  "path": "schedule/26/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where in pursuance of paragraph 2 above two or more burial authorities make arrangements under Part VI of this Act for the discharge of their functions by a joint committee, and if any of those authorities wish, and one or more of the others do not wish, to alter the arrangements, the arrangements may be changed or ended—\n(a) where those authorities are the councils of parishes . . . or groups of parishes . . . situated in the same district, by the council of that district;\n(aa) where those authorities are the councils of communities or groups of communities situated in the same principal area, by the council of that principal area;\n(b) in any other case, by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 26 para. 4(a) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(5)(8), Sch. 15 para. 65(2), Sch. 18 (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 4(aa) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(5), Sch. 15 para. 65(2) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 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."
}