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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994/schedule-17/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994/schedule-17/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/19",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Wales) Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-wales-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/17/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any person who, immediately before 1st April 1996, is an honorary alderman by reference to his past membership of an old authority—\n(a) shall continue to have that status even though the old authority has ceased to exist as a result of this Act; but\n(b) shall not, while serving as a councillor of any new principal council in Wales, be entitled to be addressed as alderman or to attend or take part in any civic ceremonies of that council as an alderman.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 17 para. 3 in force at 3.4.1995, see s. 66 and S.I. 1995/852, art. 9(1), Sch. 5 (subject to art. 9(2)-(5))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2009/25",
      "affecting_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:09.310667+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."
}