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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1997-commencement-no-3-order-1997/article-1n1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2668",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies Act 1997 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-act-1997-commencement-no-3-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1n1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Building Societies Act 1997 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1997.\n(2) In this Order “the Act” means the Building Societies Act 1997 and “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": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2668/article/1n1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:19.770440+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."
}