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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-prescribed-public-bodies-regulations-1994/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/109",
  "legislation_title": "The Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-prescribed-public-bodies-regulations-1994",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 75 (5) of the Race Relations Act 1976 preserves the validity of rules restricting employment by public bodies prescribed under that section to persons of particular birth, nationality, descent or residence, and enables such rules, notwithstanding anything in the Act, to be published, displayed or implemented and advertisements to be published stating the gist of such rules. These Regulations prescribe certain public bodies under section 75 (5) and replace the Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) Regulations 1984, the Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) (Amendment) Regulations 1985, and the Race Relations (Prescribed Public Bodies) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1985 which are revoked. The new Regulations take account of changes in the bodies prescribed in the Regulations by excluding 21 existing public bodies which no longer wish to remain prescribed and adding one new body to the list in the Schedule.\nThe bodies being excluded are:\nBritish Museum\nBritish Museum (Natural History) (now Natural History Museum)\nCivil Aviation Authority\nDevelopment Commission (now Rural Development Commission)\nImperial War Museum\nNational Economic Development Office (abolished wef 31 12 92)\nNational Gallery\nNational Galleries of Scotland\nNational Library of Scotland\nNational Maritime Museum\nNational Museums of Scotland\nNational Portrait Gallery\nRoyal Air Force Museum\nRoyal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales\nRoyal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland\nRoyal Commission on Historical Manuscripts\nRoyal Commission on Historical Monuments (England)\nScience Museum (now The National Museum of Science and Industry)\nTate Gallery\nVictoria and Albert Museum\nWallace Collection\nThe body being added is:\nHouse of Lords",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/109/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."
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