{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-scotland-housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-order-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/548",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Changes for Scotland (Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-changes-for-scotland-housing-benefit-and-council-tax-benefit-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 makes provision with respect to local government in Scotland.\nThis Order makes incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary provision for housing benefit and council tax benefit for the purposes of, and in consequence of, that Act by providing power for a new authority to terminate any benefit period granted by an old authority.\nThis Order does not impose a charge on businesses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/548/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."
}