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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-divisions-and-names-regulations-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1698",
  "legislation_title": "The Petty Sessions Areas (Divisions and Names) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/petty-sessions-areas-divisions-and-names-regulations-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations replace the Petty Sessional Divisions (Review) Regulations 1952, and prescribe, in relation to reports and draft orders under section 23 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1979, with respect to the division of a non-metropolitan county, metropolitan district or outer London borough into petty sessional divisions, and in relation to draft orders under section 24A of that Act, with respect to the name of a petty sessions, requirements as to notice and as to the manner in which, and the times within which, objections may be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1698/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."
}