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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charging-orders-act-1979/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charging-orders-act-1979/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/53",
  "legislation_title": "Charging Orders Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charging-orders-act-1979",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Charging Orders Act 1979.\n(2) This Act comes into force on such day as the Lord Chancellor may appoint by order made by statutory instrument.\n(3) This Act does not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Power of appointment conferred by s. 8(2) fully exercised: 3. 6. 1980 appointed by S.I. 1980/627"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/53/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:02.739610+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."
}