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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-principal-areas-wales-order-1995/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/151",
  "legislation_title": "The Returning Officers (Principal Areas: Wales) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/returning-officers-principal-areas-wales-order-1995",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "At the first elections of councillors for each new principal area in Wales, the returning officer shall be an officer of the council appointed by the existing council designated in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order opposite to the designation in column 1 thereof of the new principal area concerned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/151/article/2",
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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."
}