{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-development-corporation-act-2017/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-development-corporation-act-2017/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2017/5",
  "legislation_title": "Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commonwealth-development-corporation-act-2017",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Amount of the limit on government assistance",
  "text": "(1) Section 15 of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999 (limit on government assistance) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), for “£1,500 million” substitute “ £6,000 million ”.\n(3) After subsection (3) insert—\n“(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations substitute for the amount for the time being specified in subsection (1) a larger amount not exceeding £12,000 million.\n(5) Regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section are to be made by statutory instrument.\n(6) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/5/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:05:45.097739+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."
}