{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965/article-19",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/554",
  "legislation_title": "The London Authorities (Children) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-authorities-children-order-1965",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In this Order, the expression—\n“altered county” means the county of Surrey, Kent, Essex or Hertfordshire;\n“approved school order” means an approved school order as defined in the Children and Young Persons Act 1933;\n“dissolved county” means the county of London or Middlesex;\n“dissolved county borough” means the county borough of Croydon, East Ham or West Ham;\n“successor authority” means the council of—\n(a) in the case of the London County Council, an inner London borough, the City of London or the London borough of Newham;\n(b) in the case of the Middlesex County Council, the London borough of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow or Richmond upon Thames or the county of Hertfordshire or Surrey;\n(c) in the case of the Essex County Council, the London borough of Barking, Havering, Newham, Redbridge or Waltham Forest;\n(d) in the case of the Hertfordshire County Council, the London borough of Barnet;\n(e) in the case of the Kent County Council, the London borough of Bexley or Bromley;\n(f) in the case of the Surrey County Council, the London borough of Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames or Sutton;\n(g) in the case of the council of the county borough of Croydon, the London borough of Croydon;\n(h) in the case of the councils of the county boroughs of East Ham and West Ham, the London borough of Newham;\n“supervision order” means an order made by a court under any provision of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 or under section 6 of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Children) Act 1958 or under section 2 of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Magistrates' Courts) Act 1960 placing a person under the supervision of a local authority.\n(2) Any reference in this Order to an enactment is a reference to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.\n(3) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/554/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:58:46.824089+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."
}