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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974-commencement-no-1-order-1974/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1974/335",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1974 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1974-commencement-no-1-order-1974",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act, namely—\nsections 11 to 14\nsections 18 to 21\nsection 35\nsection 37\nSchedule 6 (except paragraphs 15 and 23(1))\nSchedule 7 (except paragraph 2 and the other paragraphs specified in article 3 above)\nSchedule 8 (except the entries relating to sections 97 and 98 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, the Weights and Measures Act 1963, the Rating Act 1966, sections 1 to 5, 8, 10 and 27(2) of and Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1966, section 49 of and Schedule 9 to the General Rate Act 1967, sections 72(6)(a) and 84B(8)(a) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967, sections 33 to 35 and 36 of the Countryside Act 1968, sections 13(7), 34(2) and (3) and 138(6) of the Transport Act 1968, sections 3(1), 7(5) and (6) and 29(1)(a) of the Transport (London) Act 1969, the Highways Act 1971, section 212(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971, the Housing Finance Act 1972, section 203(5) of and paragraph 12 of Schedule 24 to the Local Government Act 1972, and the Rate Rebate Act 1973),\nshall come into operation on 1st April 1974.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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