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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-committees-amendment-regulations-1995/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3119",
  "legislation_title": "The War Pensions Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/war-pensions-committees-amendment-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "SCHEDULE TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR SCHEDULE 1 TO THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS",
  "text": "“SCHEDULE 1\nWAR PENSIONS COMMITTEES AND THEIR AREAS\nRegulation 2\nName of War Pensions Committee\nArea for which War Pensions Committee Established\nCentral Scotland War Pensions Committee\nAngus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannan, Dumbarton and Clydebank, the City of Dundee, East Dunbartonshire, the City of Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Perthshire and Kinross and Stirling.\nCentral Southern England War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and Surrey.\nChilterns War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire.\nCumbria and Lancaster War Pensions Committee\nThe county of Cumbria and the City of Lancaster.\nDerbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire.\nEast Anglian War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.\nEssex War Pensions Committee\nThe county of Essex and the London boroughs of Barking, Havering and Redbridge.\nGreater Manchester and Macclesfield War Pensions Committee\nThe county of Greater Manchester, other than the metropolitan districts of Bolton and Wigan together with (in the county of Cheshire) the borough of Macclesfield.\nKent War Pensions Committee\nThe county of Kent.\nLancashire War Pensions Committee\nThe metropolitan districts of Bolton, Knowsley, Saint Helens, Sefton and Wigan and the county of Lancashire other than the City of Lancaster.\nLincolnshire and Nottinghamshire War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.\nLiverpool, the Wirral and Cheshire War Pensions Committee\nThe county of Cheshire other than the borough of Macclesfield, the City of Liverpool and the metropolitan borough of Wirral.\nLondon North War Pensions Committee\nThe London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Camden, Ealing, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Hillingdon, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest.\nLondon South War Pensions Committee\nThe London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Greenwich, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth, the Royal Boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea and of Kingston upon Thames and the Cities of London and Westminster.\nNorth and West Wales War Pensions Committee\nPwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel Gogledd a Gorllewin Cymru\nThe counties of Anglesey, Caernarfonshire and Merionethshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Pembrokeshire and Powys and the county boroughs of Aberconwy and Colwyn and Wrexham.\nNorth of Scotland War Pensions Committee\nThe City of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.\nNorth Yorkshire and the Tees War Pensions Committee\nThe county of North Yorkshire and the boroughs of Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Langbaurgh-on-Tees and Stockton-on-Tees.\nNorthern Ireland War Pensions Committee\nNorthern Ireland.\nNorthumbria War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear.\nSouth East Scotland War Pensions Committee\nThe Borders, the City of Edinburgh, Fife, Falkirk, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian.\nSouth Wales War Pensions Committee\nPwyllgor Pensiynau Rhyfel De Cymru\nThe counties of Cardiff, Monmouthshire, and Swansea and the county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil; Neath and Port Talbot; Newport; Rhondda, Cynon, Taff; Torfaen and the Vale of Glamorgan.\nSouth West England War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset and the Isles of Scilly.\nSouth West Midlands War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Hereford and Worcester and Shropshire.\nSouth West Scotland War Pensions Committee\nEast Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde, South Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and East Renfrewshire.\nSouth Yorkshire and the Humber War Pensions Committee\nThe City of Kingston upon Hull, the districts of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire, the metropolitan boroughs of Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham and the City of Sheffield.\nSussex War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of East and West Sussex.\nWest Midlands, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire War Pensions Committee\nThe counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, the Cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the district of Solihull.\nWest of England War Pensions Committee\nThe districts of Bath and North East Somerset, the City of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Woodspring and the counties of Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.\nWest Yorkshire War Pensions Committee\nThe Cities of Bradford, Leeds and Wakefield, the borough of Kirklees and the district of Calderdale.\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "A new district of York was constituted by article 3 of the North Yorkshire (District of York) (Structural and Boundary Changes) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/610) with effect from 8th March 1995. That district will cease to form part of North Yorkshire and become a separate county on 1st April 1996 by virtue of articles 4 and 5(1) of that Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "This borough is renamed Redcar and Cleveland with effect from 1st April 1996 by virtue of article 9 of the Cleveland (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/187)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The districts of the City of Kingston upon Hull, North East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire are constituted by article 3 of the Humberside (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/600) with effect from 8th March 1995, each area also becoming a county on 1st April 1996 by virtue of article 6 of that Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The districts of Bath and North East Somerset, the City of Bristol and South Gloucestershire are constituted by article 3 of the Avon (Structural Change) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/493) with effect from 1st March 1995. On 1st April 1996 the district of Woodspring is renamed North West Somerset by article 4 of that Order, and North West Somerset and the districts constituted by article 3 become counties by virtue of article 6 of the Order."
    }
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