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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-rating-agencies-regulations-2010/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/906",
  "legislation_title": "The Credit Rating Agencies Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-rating-agencies-regulations-2010",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Financial Services And Markets\nMade 22nd March 2010\nLaid before Parliament 23rd March 2010\nComing into force 7th June 2010\nThe Treasury are a government department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to—\n(a) credit ratings and credit rating agencies;\n(b) credit and financial institutions and the taking of deposits or other repayable funds from the public; and\n(c) measures relating to investment firms and to the provision of investment services.\nThe Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and section 349(1)(b) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 , make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
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      "text": "S.I. 2009/3214."
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      "text": "S.I. 2001/3495."
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      "text": "S.I. 1993/2661."
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      "text": "2000 c. 8."
    },
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      "text": "Regulations: power to modify conferred (11.7.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 3, 86(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 2; S.I. 2023/779, reg. 2(d)"
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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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