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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-disclosure-of-information-designated-authorities-order-1988/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1334",
  "legislation_title": "The Companies (Disclosure of Information) (Designated Authorities) Order 1988",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of authorities and specification of functions",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 449 of the Companies Act 1985—\n(a) the Director General of Fair Trading is designated as an authority in relation to his functions under the Fair Trading Act 1973 (other than Parts II and III of that Act), the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 and the Competition Act 1980; and\n(b) the Monopolies and Mergers Commission is designated as an authority in relation to its functions under the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1980 c. 21."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1334/article/2",
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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."
}