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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012-commencement-no1-wales-order-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2012/2499",
  "legislation_title": "The Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Commencement No.1) (Wales) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-freedoms-act-2012-commencement-no1-wales-order-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThe Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (“the Act”) received Royal Assent on 1 May 2012.\nArticle 2 of this Order commences on 1 October 2012 provisions to recover unpaid parking charges in respect of the parking of a vehicle on relevant land in Wales.\n“Relevant land” is defined within Schedule 4 to the Act as land other than a highway maintainable at public expense, a parking place provided and/or controlled by a traffic authority or any other land not subject to statutory parking control.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2012/2499/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:04.993296+00:00"
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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."
}