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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1022",
  "legislation_title": "The Overview and Scrutiny (Reference by Councillors) (Excluded Matters) (England) Order 2012",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Excluded matters",
  "text": "Subject to article 4, the descriptions of matters specified as excluded matters for the purposes of section 9FC of the Local Government Act 2000 are—\n(a) any matter relating to a planning decision;\n(b) any matter relating to a licensing decision;\n(c) any matter relating to a person in respect of which that person has a right of recourse to a review or right of appeal conferred by or under any enactment;\n(d) any matter which is vexatious, discriminatory or not reasonable to be included in the agenda for, or to be discussed at, a meeting of the overview and scrutiny committee or at a meeting of a sub-committee of that committee.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 4.5.2012, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1022/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:34:30.932441+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."
}