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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986-electronic-communications-order-2003/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/404",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1986-electronic-communications-order-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Building Societies Act 1986 (Electronic Communications) Order 2003, and comes into force on 20th March 2003.\n(2) In this Order, “the 1986 Act” means the Building Societies Act 1986.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/404/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:31:30.768459+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."
}