{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-mercia-police-area-and-authority-order-1997/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1844",
  "legislation_title": "The West Mercia (Police Area and Authority) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/west-mercia-police-area-and-authority-order-1997",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In the right-hand column of Schedule 1 to the 1996 Act (police areas) opposite the name of the West Mercia police area—\n(a) the words “Hereford and Worcester and” shall be omitted, and\n(b) after the word “Shropshire” there shall be inserted “and Worcestershire and the non-metropolitan districts of Herefordshire and The Wrekin”.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1844/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:04:28.579839+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."
}