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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/washington-development-corporation-transfer-of-property-and-dissolution-order-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Washington Development Corporation (Transfer of Property and Dissolution) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/washington-development-corporation-transfer-of-property-and-dissolution-order-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NEW TOWNS\nMade 2nd March 1988\nComing into force 1st April 1988\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, having consulted the Council of the district in which the new town of Washington is situated, and being satisfied that the purposes for which the Washington Development Corporation is established under the New Towns Act 1981 have been substantially achieved, in exercise of powers conferred on him by section 41 of and paragraphs 2(1) and 3(4) of Schedule 10 to that Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Order—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 64."
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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."
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