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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-grants-and-rates-etc-order-1965/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/97",
  "legislation_title": "The London Government (Grants and Rates, etc.) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-government-grants-and-rates-etc-order-1965",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.\n(2) In this order—\n“the Act” means the London Government Act 1963;\n“the specified matters” means—\nthe establishment of the London boroughs as rating areas and of the councils of the boroughs as the rating authorities therefor;\nthe abolition of the metropolitan boroughs and the county boroughs and county districts the area of which falls wholly within Greater London;\nthe alteration of the area of the urban district of Chigwell made by the Act;\nthe transfer of the urban district of Potters Bar to Hertfordshire and of the urban districts of Staines and Sunbury-on-Thames to Surrey;\nthe adjustment of the metropolitan police district made by the Act; and\nthe amendment of the Rate-product Rules 1959 made by article 13.\n(3) In this order, unless the context otherwise requires, references to a enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended, extended or applied by or under any other enactment or by this order.\n(4) Any reference in this order to a numbered article shall, unless the reference is to an article of a specified order, be construed as a reference the article bearing that number in this order.\n(5) Any reference in any article of this order to a numbered paragraph shall, unless the reference is to a paragraph of a specified article, be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the first-mentioned article.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "(1959 II, p. 2288)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/97/article/2",
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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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