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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffordshire-city-of-stoke-on-trent-structural-and-boundary-changes-order-1995/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1779",
  "legislation_title": "The Staffordshire (City of Stoke-on-Trent) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/staffordshire-city-of-stoke-on-trent-structural-and-boundary-changes-order-1995",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Constitution of new county of Stoke-on-Trent",
  "text": "(1) Stoke shall cease to form part of Staffordshire.\n(2) A new county shall be constituted comprising the area of Stoke and shall be named the county of Stoke-on-Trent.\n(3) Section 2(1) of the 1972 Act (which provides that every county shall have a council) shall not apply in relation to the county of Stoke-on-Trent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1779/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:05:48.064551+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}