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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-scotland-miscellaneous-changes-order-1988/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-scotland-miscellaneous-changes-order-1988/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1992",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Changes) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-constituencies-scotland-miscellaneous-changes-order-1988",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Edinburgh East, East Lothian and Midlothian",
  "text": "For the burgh constituency of Edinburgh East as constituted by the Schedule to the 1983 Order (and described by reference to local government areas and electoral areas as they existed on 18th February 1983) and for the county constituencies of East Lothian and Midlothian as constituted by the Schedule to the 1987 Order (and described by reference to local government areas as they existed on 29th December 1986), there shall be substituted the constituencies which are named in column (1) of Part IV of the Schedule to this Order and comprise the areas set out opposite in column (2), which areas are local government areas and electoral areas as they existed on 24th June 1988 (and accordingly as altered by the City of Edinburgh and East Lothian Districts (Newhailes) Boundaries Amendment Order 1988 and the East Lothian and Midlothian Districts (Marldene) Boundaries Amendment Order 1988).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/48"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/49"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1992/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:52.906021+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."
}