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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-security-work-exemption-wales-order-1997/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-security-work-exemption-wales-order-1997/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/124",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Security Work) (Exemption) (Wales) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-security-work-exemption-wales-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and application",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Government Act 1988 (Security Work) (Exemption) (Wales) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 21st February 1997.\n(2) This Order applies only in relation to the following defined authorities in Wales—\n(a) a local authority;\n(b) a combined fire authority;\n(c) a National Park authority; and\n(d) a joint committee which falls to be treated as a defined authority by section 1(4) of the Act and which is appointed only by two or more defined authorities within paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) above.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For the meaning of “defined authority”, see section 1 of the 1988 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “local authority”, see section 1(2A) of the 1988 Act which was inserted by the Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Consequential Amendments) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/115)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 1(1)(aa) of the 1988 Act which was inserted by paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 8 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/124/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:27.562623+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."
}