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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-act-2015-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2015/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/994",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation Act 2015 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-act-2015-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st October 2015",
  "text": "The day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Act is 1st October 2015—\n(a) section 2 (removal of employment tribunals’ power to make wider recommendations);\n(b) section 6 (requirements to wear safety helmets: exemption for Sikhs);\n(c) section 7 (requirements to wear safety helmets: exemption for Sikhs: Northern Ireland);\n(d) section 10 (taxis and private hire vehicles: duration of licences);\n(e) section 11 (private hire vehicles: sub-contracting);\n(f) section 12 (space activity: limit on indemnity required);\n(g) section 33 (preventing retaliatory eviction in relation to assured shorthold tenancies);\n(h) section 34 (further exemptions to section 33);\n(i) section 35 (notice to be provided in relation to periodic assured shorthold tenancies);\n(j) section 36 (time limits in relation to section 21 notices and proceedings);\n(k) section 38 (compliance with prescribed legal requirements), so far as not already in force;\n(l) section 39 (requirement for landlord to provide prescribed information), so far as not already in force;\n(m) section 40 (repayment of rent where tenancy ends before end of a period);\n(n) section 41(application of sections 33 to 40);\n(o) section 49 (removal of restrictions on provision of passenger rail services) and Schedule 8 (provision of passenger rail services), so far as not already in force;\n(p) Section 51(g) (reduction of burdens relating to the use of roads and railways) and Part 7 of Schedule 10 (rail vehicle accessibility regulations: exemption orders).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 11 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of article 10 of this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "By virtue of article 10 of this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "By virtue of section 115(2) of the Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/994/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:39:01.214295+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}