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  "title": "The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire (Fire and Rescue Authority) Order 2018",
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  "long_title": "This Order makes provision (see article 3) for the creation of a new fire and rescue authority under section 4A of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21) for the areas of the city of Stoke-on-Trent Council and Staffordshire County Council. The person who is for the time being the police and crime commissioner for Staffordshire is to be for the time being that new fire and rescue authority. The new authority will be known as the Staffordshire Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority. The Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Fire Authority is abolished by article 12 of the Order.",
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