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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-miscellaneous-provision-no-4-order-1986/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1986/452",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Miscellaneous Provision) (No. 4) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-miscellaneous-provision-no-4-order-1986",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of instruments",
  "text": "(1) Any order (“a compulsory purchase order”) authorising the compulsory acquisition of land by an abolished council may be amended by the Minister by whom it was confirmed, or by whom it falls to be confirmed, by the substitution as the authority to be authorised to acquire the land comprised in the order of one or more successor authorities and thereafter the order shall have effect, or be considered and if confirmed have effect accordingly.\n(2) Any instrument other than a compulsory purchase order made by an abolished council before the abolition date and submitted (whether before or after that date) to a Minister for confirmation may be amended by that Minister by the substitution of references to one or more successor authorities or to the areas of those authorities and thereafter the order, if confirmed, shall have effect accordingly.\n(3) In this article “successor authority” has the same meaning as in section 97(5) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/452/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:52:19.503056+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."
}