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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lothian-and-borders-combined-police-area-amalgamation-scheme-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2640",
  "legislation_title": "The Lothian and Borders Combined Police Area Amalgamation Scheme Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lothian-and-borders-combined-police-area-amalgamation-scheme-order-1995",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this scheme, the following expressions, except where the context otherwise requires, shall have the meaning hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—\n“the Act” means the Police (Scotland) Act 1967;\n“appointed day” means 1st April 1996;\n“the board” means the joint police board constituted in terms of this scheme;\n“constituent authorities” means City of Edinburgh Council, East Lothian Council, Midlothian Council, West Lothian Council and Scottish Borders Council;\n“local government area” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(2) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“Lothian and Borders Police” means the combined force established by the South-Eastern Police (Amalgamation) Order 1975 and continued by virtue of section 21B(1) of the Act;\n“the existing Lothian and Borders Joint Police Board” means the joint police committee constituted by the South-Eastern Police (Amalgamation) Order 1975.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/633, amended by S.I. 1989/66 and 1992/576."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Police Grant (Carry-forward Percentages) (Scotland) Order 2011"
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      "affecting_title": "The Police Grant (Carry-forward Percentages) (Scotland) Order 2011"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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