{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swansea-communities-order-2011/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swansea-communities-order-2011/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2011/2932",
  "legislation_title": "The Swansea (Communities) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/swansea-communities-order-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, WALES\nMade 6 December 2011\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(2) and (3)\nThe Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, having submitted to the Welsh Ministers, in accordance with sections 54(1) and 58(1) of the Local Government Act 1972, reports dated February 2010 and September 2011 on its reviews of, and proposals for, communities in the City and County of Swansea;\nAnd the Welsh Ministers having decided to give effect to the proposals in the Commission’s report dated February 2010, except for the proposed change to the boundary between the communities of Birchgrove and Clydach, and to the proposals in the Commission’s report dated September 2011 without modification;\nAnd more than six weeks having elapsed since those proposals were submitted to the Welsh Ministers;\nThe Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Secretary of State by sections 58(2) and 67(4) and (5) of the Local Government Act 1972 and now vested in them so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The powers of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and are now vested in the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (2006 c. 32)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/2932/introduction",
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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."
}