{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-and-south-western-combined-fire-services-area-administration-scheme-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-and-south-western-combined-fire-services-area-administration-scheme-order-1995/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2636",
  "legislation_title": "The Mid and South Western Combined Fire Services Area Administration Scheme Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mid-and-south-western-combined-fire-services-area-administration-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 Fire Services Act 1947;\n“appointed day” means 1st April 1996;\n“the board” means the joint board constituted in terms of this scheme;\n“the Brigade” means the fire brigade, called Strathclyde Fire Brigade, maintained, immediately before 1st April 1996, by Strathclyde Regional Council and continued on and after that date by section 147(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n“combined area” means the combined area for fire services comprising the local government areas of Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, Dumbarton and Clydebank, East Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire, East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire;\n“constituent authorities” means Argyll and Bute Council, City of Glasgow Council, Dumbarton and Clydebank Council, East Dunbartonshire Council, Inverclyde Council, East Renfrewshire Council, East Ayrshire Council, North Ayrshire Council, South Ayrshire Council, North Lanarkshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Renfrewshire Council;\n“local government area” shall be construed in accordance with section 1(2) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2636/schedule/paragraph/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."
}