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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-act-2015-commencement-no3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2015/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1732",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation Act 2015 (Commencement No.3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-act-2015-commencement-no3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "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 1 (health and safety at work: general duty of self-employed persons) so far as not already in force;\n(b) section 15 (suppliers of fuel and fireplaces);\n(c) section 17 (authorisation of insolvency practitioners);\n(d) section 18 and Schedule 5 (auditors ceasing to hold office);\n(e) section 19 (insolvency and company law) so far as it relates to the following provisions of Schedule 6, and those provisions:-\n(i) Part 1 (deeds of arrangement);\n(ii) paragraphs 4, 6 and 7 of Part 2 (administration of companies);\n(iii) Part 3 (winding up of companies);\n(iv) Part 4 (disqualification of unfit directors of insolvent companies);\n(v) paragraph 12 of Part 5, so far as it relates to paragraph 16 of Part 5, and paragraph 16 of Part 5 (bankruptcy); and\n(vi) Part 6 (authorisation of insolvency practitioners);\n(f) section 59, so far as it relates to Part 5 (noise abatement zones) of Schedule 13, and Part 5 of that Schedule;\n(g) section 66(1) to (4) (schools: reduction of burdens);\n(h) section 71(late night refreshment).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 115(2) of the Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 19, to the extent that it relates to paragraph 5, and Parts 7 and 8 of Schedule 6, was commenced by section 115(5) of the Act. Paragraph 5 and Parts 7 and 8 of Schedule 6 were commenced by section 115(3)(n) of the Act."
    }
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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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