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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994-commencement-no-6-order-1995/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3198",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (Commencement No. 6) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994-commencement-no-6-order-1995",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Commencement of certain provisions of Part VII of the 1994 Act",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the provisions of Part VII of, and Schedules 16 and 18 to, the 1994 Act which are specified in Schedule 4 to this Order shall come into force on 1st January 1996.\n(2) Until 1st April 1996 the meaning of “local authority” in paragraph 5A(4) of Schedule 2 to the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1978 shall, in relation to Wales, be interpreted as including the district and county councils created as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, as originally enacted.\n(3) The provisions of Part VII of, and Schedule 17 to, the 1994 Act which are specified in Schedule 5 to this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1996.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 10; paragraph 5A was inserted by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (c. 56), section 7 and Schedule 3, paragraph 5(6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
}