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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-parliamentary-constituencies-wales-order-1996/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/897",
  "legislation_title": "The Returning Officers (Parliamentary Constituencies) (Wales) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-parliamentary-constituencies-wales-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the case of the county constituency specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Order, being a county constituency which is not coterminous with or wholly contained in a preserved county as defined by section 64 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, the sheriff of the preserved county specified in column 2 of that Schedule opposite to the name of the constituency shall be the returning officer at a parliamentary election.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 19."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/897/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:51.531327+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."
}