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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1964/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1964/48",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1964",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1964",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In relation to an amalgamation scheme to be approved or made by virtue of section 23 of this Act—\n(a) the reference in subsection (4) of section 3 of this Act to a committee of one of the constituent councils shall include a reference to a committee of the council for any relevant area, that is to say, any area which under the order in question is (within the meaning of section 23 of this Act) a prospective police area and to which the scheme is to apply and\n(b) the request required by that subsection shall include the request of every council which is the council for a county the whole or any part of which is included in a relevant area.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(a) substituted (31.10.1992) by Local Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 27, Sch. 3 para. 4(a); S.I. 1992/2371, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7 (b) substituted (31.10.1992) by LOcal Government Act 1992 (c. 19), s. 27, Sch. 3 para. 4(b); S.I. 1992/2371, art. 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."
}