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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-boundaries-act-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-boundaries-act-northern-ireland-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2008/7",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-boundaries-act-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to provide for 11 local government districts in Northern Ireland, for the division of those districts into wards, for the appointment of a Local Government Boundaries Commissioner to recommend the boundaries and names of those districts and wards and the number of wards in each district; and for connected purposes.\n[23rd May 2008]\nBE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act power to make supplementary and transitional provisions conferred (20.5.2014) by Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 2014 (c. 8), ss. 124(1)(b), 129 (with s. 124(4)); S.R. 2014/142, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: transfer of functions (8.5.2016) by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016/76), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 Pt. 1 (with art. 9(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."
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