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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021/schedule-12/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "asc/2021/1",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government and Elections (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-elections-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An acquisition or disposal made in contravention of a direction given under paragraph 1 is void.\n(2) A contract (including a contract for employment) or agreement entered into in contravention of a direction given under paragraph 1 is unenforceable.\n(3) A grant or other financial assistance given, or a loan made, in contravention of a direction given under paragraph 1 is repayable.\n(4) If a merging council or restructuring council includes financial reserves in a calculation under section 32 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14) in contravention of a direction given under paragraph 1, the council is to be treated for the purposes of section 30(8) of that Act as not having made the calculations required by Chapter 3 of Part 1 of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 5 in force at 21.1.2021 for specified purposes, see s. 175(1)(f)(2)(b)(ii)(m)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 5 in force at 1.4.2021 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2021/297, art. 2(j)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:57.648401+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."
}