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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-england-finance-regulations-1994/regulation-56",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2825",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for England (Finance) Regulations 1994",
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  "path": "regulation/56",
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  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Assistance to the chief finance officer of a successor or acquiring authority",
  "text": "A person who during the preliminary period is the chief finance officer of an abolished or relinquishing authority shall during that period provide such assistance to the chief finance officer of respectively any successor or acquiring authority as such chief finance officer reasonably requires to enable him to discharge any functions referred to in regulations 36, 37 and 38 and shall provide the same assistance during any part of the initial year in which that person is an officer of a successor authority or continues to be an officer of the relinquishing authority, as the case may be.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2825/regulation/56",
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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."
}