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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994-commencement-no-7-order-1996/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/396",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (Commencement No. 7) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994-commencement-no-7-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF PART II OF, AND SCHEDULES 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 AND 11 TO, THE 1994 ACT COMING INTO FORCE ON 1st APRIL 1996",
  "text": "Provision of the 1994 Act\nSubject matter\nSection 17\nGeneral provision for transfer of functions.\nSection 21\nLocal education authorities and minor authorities in Wales.\nSection 22(6)\nTransfer of specific functions; minor and consequential amendments to enactments.\nParagraphs 1, 13 to 17, 19, 20, 22, 24(2) to (10)(a), 24(11) to (16) and 24(17)(b) to 27 of Schedule 6, and section 20(4) so far as it relates thereto\nMinor and Consequential Amendments: Planning.\nParagraphs 1 to 27(3) and 28 to 43 of Schedule 7, and section 22(1) so far as it relates thereto\nHighways, Road Traffic and Transport.\nParagraphs 1 to 3(1) and 3(3) to 11 of Schedule 8, and section 22(2) so far as it relates thereto\nHousing.\nParagraphs 1 to 16, 17(1) (but only in respect of the insertion of paragraph (bb) into section 4(11) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43)), 17(2), 17(3) and 17(5) to 18 of Schedule 9, and section 22(3) so far as it relates thereto\nPublic Health.\nParagraphs 1 to 10 and 11(2) to 13 of Schedule 10, and section 22(4) so far as it relates thereto\nSocial Services.\nParagraphs 1, 2 and 3(3) to 5 of Schedule 11, and section 22(5) so far as it relates thereto\nWater, Land Drainage and Coast Protection.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 to the 1994 Act is amended by paragraph 38(1) of Schedule 10 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "As a result of paragraph 30(6) of Schedule 10 to the Environment Act 1995 the paragraph (aa) inserted by paragraph 22 of Schedule 6 is re-numbered “(ab)”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 17(2) of Schedule 9 to the 1994 Act is amended by paragraph 231 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995."
    }
  ],
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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."
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