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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003-and-the-digital-economy-act-2017-consequential-amendments-to-secondary-legislation-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1011",
  "legislation_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/communications-act-2003-and-the-digital-economy-act-2017-consequential-amendments-to-secondary-legislation-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electronic Communications\nMade 18th October 2017\nLaid before Parliament 19th October 2017\nComing into force in accordance with article 1(1)\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 406(3) of the Communications Act 2003 and section 6(1) to (3) of the Digital Economy Act 2017.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2017 c.30. The effect of section 4 of that Act is to omit the code set out in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 (c. 12) and replaces it with the code set out in Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1011/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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