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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-of-england-act-1998/section-41",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/11",
  "legislation_title": "Bank of England Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bank-of-england-act-1998",
  "path": "section/41",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "General interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act—\n“the Bank” means the Bank of England;\n“the capital requirements regulation” means Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.\n“central securities depository” has the meaning given by point (1) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on improving securities settlement in the European Union and on central securities depositories;\n(2) References in this Act to an EU regulation are to that regulation as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 41 renumbered as s. 41(1) (31.12.2020) by The Bank of England (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1297), regs. 1(2), 6(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 41 inserted (28.11.2017) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1064), reg. 1, Sch. para. 9(5) (with regs. 7(4), 9(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 41(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Bank of England (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1297), regs. 1(2), 6(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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