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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/770",
  "legislation_title": "The National Park Authorities (England) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-park-authorities-england-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Countryside, England\nMade 16th March 2015\nLaid before Parliament 19th March 2015\nComing into force 1st July 2015\nThe Secretary of State makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 241 and 266(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 , section 4A(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and sections 63(1) and (2) and 75(3) to (7) and paragraphs 1(2) and (3) and 2(1) to (3) of Schedule 7 to the Environment Act 1995 .\nThe Secretary of State has consulted with the council for every principal area the whole or any part of which is comprised in a National Park to which this Order applies, as required by paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 7 to the Environment Act 1995.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c.70 (“the 1972 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1990 c.8. Section 4A was inserted by section 67(1) of the Environment Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”) and amended by Schedule 24 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1995 c.25. Paragraph 1(2) and (3) of Schedule 7 was substituted by section 61(1) and (2) of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16)."
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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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