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  "legislation_title": "Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980",
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  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any contract or instrument which, if made or executed by a person not being a body corporate, would not be required to be under seal may be made or executed on behalf of the corporation by any person generally or specially authorised by it to act for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 26 shall cease to have effect for specified purposes (E.W.) (1.10.1996) by virtue of 1996 c. 52, s. 222, Sch. 18 Pt. IV para. 22(1)(b)(3); S.I. 1996/2402, art. 3, Sch."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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