{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-metropolitan-and-welsh-counties-local-statutory-provisions-order-1983/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/619",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-metropolitan and Welsh Counties (Local Statutory Provisions) Order 1983",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-metropolitan-and-welsh-counties-local-statutory-provisions-order-1983",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Section 262(9) of the Local Government Act 1972 provides that all local statutory provisions to which that subsection applies shall cease to have effect on specified dates; but allows the date to be postponed in relation to any local authority area by statutory order.\nIn the case of provisions applying to non-metropolitan counties in England and Welsh counties the specified date is 31st December 1984.\nThis order postpones that date to 31st December 1986.\nThe local statutory provisions to which section 262(9) applies are principally Acts promoted by local authorities in force immediately before 1st April 1974 anywhere outside Greater London.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1983/619/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:03:04.765806+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."
}