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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-prescribed-form-of-receipt-rules-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2869",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies (Prescribed Form of Receipt) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-societies-prescribed-form-of-receipt-rules-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "BUILDING SOCIETIES\nMade 26th November 1997\nComing into force 1st December 1997\nThe Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by paragraph 3 of Schedule 2A to the Building Societies Act 1986 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 53; Schedule 2A was inserted by section 7(2) of and Schedule 2 to the Building Societies Act 1997 (c. 32)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2869/introduction",
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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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