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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-committees-and-political-groups-regulations-1990/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1553",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Committees and Political Groups) Regulations 1990",
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  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Political groups",
  "text": "The members of an authority are to be treated as divided into different political groups when there is at least one political group in existence constituted in accordance with regulation 8.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 1.8.1990, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1553/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:11:04.151811+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."
}