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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011-commencement-no-8-and-transitional-transitory-and-savings-provisions-order-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2913",
  "legislation_title": "The Localism Act 2011 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional, Transitory and Savings Provisions) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/localism-act-2011-commencement-no-8-and-transitional-transitory-and-savings-provisions-order-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order commences certain provisions of the Localism Act 2011 relating to standards and police authorities.\nPolice authorities established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996 are to be abolished on the 22nd November 2012, to be replaced with police and crime commissioners established under section 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13).\nArticle 2 commences section 36(b) which repeals the reference to a police authority in paragraph (k) of section 27(6) (which has not been commenced), thereby removing police authorities in England and Wales established under section 3 of the Police Act 1996 from the standards regime established under the Localism Act 2011.\nParagraphs (b) and (c) of article 2 commence the amendments and repeals made by Schedule 4 and in Part 5 of Schedule 5 so far as they relate to police authorities.\nArticles 3 to 6 make transitional, transitory and savings provisions in relation to England and Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2913/note",
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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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