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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessional-divisions-west-glamorgan-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Petty Sessional Divisions (West Glamorgan) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessional-divisions-west-glamorgan-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) except where the context otherwise requires, the expression “division” means a petty sessional division;\n(b) any reference to a justice for a division shall be construed as a reference to a justice of the peace who ordinarily acts, or, as the case may be, will on or after 1st April 1996 ordinarily act, in and for that division;\n(c) any reference to a county, county borough or preserved county shall be construed in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70: the relevant provisions are sections 20 and 270(1) and Schedule 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The relevant provisions are section 1(1), (2) and (7) and Schedule 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/463/article/2",
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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."
}