{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996-reserve-associations-order-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2379",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve Forces Act 1996 (Reserve Associations) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1996-reserve-associations-order-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order winds up the Eastern Wessex Association, being one of 14 existing territorial, auxiliary and reserve forces associations in the United Kingdom. The Order also alters the areas for which the existing Wessex Association and the existing South East Association are established so that they include the counties, unitary authorities and Channel Islands that formerly belonged to the Eastern Wessex Association. The Wessex Association is altered to include the county of Dorset and the non-metropolitan districts of Poole and Bournemouth. The South East Association is altered to include the counties of Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Oxfordshire, the non-metropolitan districts of Bracknell Forest, Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, Reading, Slough, Southampton, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham, and the Channel Islands.\nThe Order also makes supplemental and incidental provision, including in relation to the transfer of property, rights and liabilities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2379/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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