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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980-commencement-no-1-order-1980/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1980/497",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980-commencement-no-1-order-1980",
  "path": "article/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to Article 4 below, the provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 1 to this Order shall come into operation—\n(a) as regards those provisions specified in column 1 of Part I of that Schedule, on the day after the making of this Order;\n(b) as regards those provisions specified in column 1 of Part II of that Schedule, on 1st May 1980;\n(c) as regards those provisions specified in column 1 of Part III of that Schedule, on 1st January 2011;\nfor the purposes specified in relation to the provisions in question in column 3 of that Schedule.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1980/497/article/3",
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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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