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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-housing-act-1989-commencement-no-9-and-saving-order-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-housing-act-1989-commencement-no-9-and-saving-order-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1552",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (Commencement No. 9 and Saving) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-and-housing-act-1989-commencement-no-9-and-saving-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 1st August 1990 in relation to authorities in England and Wales the following provisions of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989—\nsection 9 (assistants for political groups),\nsection 15 (duty to allocate seats to political groups), and Schedule 1, to the extent that they are not in force;\nsection 16 (duty to give effect to allocations);\nsection 17 (exceptions to and extensions of political balance requirements), to the extent that it is not in force; and\nsection 194(4) in relation to the repeal of section 33 of the Local Government Act 1985.\nThe Order also brings into force section 13 (voting rights of members of certain committees: England and Wales) and section 194(4) in relation to the repeal of words in section 102(3) of the Local Government Act 1972. Those provisions have effect, in relation to parish and community councils, from 1st January 1991 and, in relation to other authorities, from 1st August 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1552/note",
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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."
}