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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-act-1979-commencement-no-3-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/306",
  "legislation_title": "The Credit Unions Act 1979 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2003",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of section 3(2) and (3) of the 1979 Act",
  "text": "1st September 2003 is the day appointed for the coming into operation of subsections (2) and (3) of section 3 of the Credit Unions Act 1979 (use of the name “credit union”).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Amended by the Welsh Language Act 1993 (c. 38), section 29, S.I. 2001/2617 and S.I. 2003/256."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/306/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."
}