{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-wales-property-etc-order-1996/article-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/532",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Wales) (Property etc.) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-wales-property-etc-order-1996",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Records",
  "text": "(1) Where by virtue of this Order land or property vests in a body, any records which relate exclusively to that land or property shall vest in the body.\n(2) Where—\n(a) by virtue of this Order records are vested in a body, and\n(b) the property, rights, liabilities or functions to which they relate are vested in or are exercisable by another body on or after 1st April 1996,\nthat other body shall be entitled during ordinary office hours, through any person authorised in that behalf, to inspect those records and to take, or be supplied with, copies.\n(3) The rights conferred by paragraph (2) above include the right to require any record which is not in legible form to be made available in legible form for the purposes of inspection or copying or being supplied with copies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/532/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:36.061938+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."
}