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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disclosure-of-information-designated-authorities-no-2-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1889",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Disclosure of Information) (Designated Authorities) (No. 2) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disclosure-of-information-designated-authorities-no-2-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of the Comptroller and Auditor General for the purposes of section 449(1B) of the 1985 Act; and restriction on disclosure under that section",
  "text": "(1) The Comptroller and Auditor General is designated for the purposes of section 449(1B) of the 1985 Act in relation to his functions under Part 2 of the National Audit Act 1983.\n(2) But section 449(1B) permits publication or disclosure by virtue of this designation only where the publication or disclosure is made by the National Lottery Commission to the National Audit Office for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Comptroller and Auditor General to carry out an examination into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which the National Lottery Commission has used its resources in discharging its functions under sections 5 to 10 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1983 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 39; by virtue of the National Lottery Act 1998 (c. 22), Schedule 1, paragraphs 1 and 4, sections 5 to 10 of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 have effect as if references to the Director General of the National Lottery were references to the National Lottery Commission."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/2329",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Bodies (Merger of the Gambling Commission and the National Lottery Commission) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2012/725",
      "affecting_title": "The Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2012"
    }
  ],
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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."
}