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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-act-1958/section-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-act-1958/section-47.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/69",
  "legislation_title": "Opencast Coal Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/opencast-coal-act-1958",
  "path": "section/47",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Provisions as to notices and public inquiries.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of the Ninth Schedule to this Act shall have effect as to the service of notices under this Act.\n(2) Subsections (2) to (5) of section 250 of the Local Government Act 1972 (which relate to local inquiries) shall have effect in relation to any inquiry held under this Act in relation to land in England or Wales . . . . . .\n(3) Subsections (2) to (8) of section 210 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, shall have effect in relation to any inquiry held under this Act in relation to land in Scotland, including any inquiry so held under any provisions of the Scottish Acquisition of Land Act as applied by this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 272(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s. 34(3), Sch. 6 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words spent"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), s. 237(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
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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."
}