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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-1996-commencement-no-1-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/817",
  "legislation_title": "The Defamation Act 1996 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/defamation-act-1996-commencement-no-1-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Defamation Act 1996 shall come into force on 1st April 1999–\n(a) sections 14 and 15 and Schedule 1 (reports etc of courts and other bodies protected by privilege) and section 17 (interpretation) so far as it applies to those provisions;\n(b) section 16 (repeals) so far as consequential on the provisions in sub-paragraph (a) and Schedule 2 except the entries relating to–\n(i) the Defamation Act 1952 sections 4 and 16(3);\n(ii) the Defamation Act (Northern Ireland) 1955, sections 4 and 14(2);\n(iii) the Broadcasting Act 1990 Schedule 20, paragraph 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1955 c. 11 (NI)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 42."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/817/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."
}