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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessional-divisions-dorset-order-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1739",
  "legislation_title": "The Petty Sessional Divisions (Dorset) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessional-divisions-dorset-order-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order gives effect to a draft order submitted by the magistrates' courts committee for the county of Dorset and provides for the petty sessional divisions of Blandford, Shaftesbury and Sturminster to be abolished and reconstituted as the two new divisions of Blandford and Sturminster and Shaftesbury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1739/note",
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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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