{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-debt-administration-merseyside-order-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-debt-administration-merseyside-order-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/452",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Debt Administration) (Merseyside) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-debt-administration-merseyside-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 10th March 1988\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1988\nComing into force 1st April 1988\nWhereas the Merseyside Residuary Body, acting pursuant to section 67(1)(a) of the Local Government Act 1985, has submitted proposals to the Secretary of State for the transfer to other bodies of certain rights and liabilities (being rights and liabilities of that Body which are likely to subsist beyond 31st March 1991):\nAnd whereas the Secretary of State has decided to give effect to those proposals with modifications:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 58(2) and 67(3) of that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/452/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:10:10.541148+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."
}