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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1991/section-27",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/62",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-1991",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Armed Forces Act 1991.\n(2) Subject to subsection (4) below, Parts II and III of this Act, sections 24 and 26 above and Schedules 2 and 3 to this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be so appointed for different provisions and for different purposes.\n(3) An order under subsection (2) above may contain such transitional provisions and savings as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions brought into force by the order.\n(4) The repeal by this Act of section 1 of the Armed Forces Act 1986 shall come into force on 1st January 1992.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "M",
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      "text": "1986 c. 21."
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      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 27(2)(3) power partly exercised (3.12.1991): 1.1.1992 appointed day for specified provisions by S.I. 1991/2719, art.2S. 27(2)(3) power partly exercised (24.4.1996): 1.6.1996 appointed day for specified provisions by S.I. 1996/1173, art. 2, Sch."
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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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