{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-telecommunications-dissolution-order-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-telecommunications-dissolution-order-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2162",
  "legislation_title": "The British Telecommunications (Dissolution) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/british-telecommunications-dissolution-order-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nBritish Telecommunications was established by the British Telecommunications Act 1981 (1981 c. 38) (“the 1981 Act”) to exercise such powers and duties as were set out in the 1981 Act.\nThe Secretary of State by Order under section 60(1) of the Telecommunications Act 1984 (1984 c. 12) transferred all the property rights and liabilities to which British Telecommunications was entitled or subject to a successor company to be nominated.\nBy the Telecomunications Act 1984 (Nominated Company) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/886), British Telecommunications plc was so nominated.\nThis Order dissolves British Telecommunications.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2162/note",
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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."
}