{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-football-pools-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-football-pools-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1073",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation (Football Pools) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-football-pools-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963",
  "text": "In section 1(4D) of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963 (which defines a “qualifying competition” so as to require that the forecasts in the competition are made on football games played on a Saturday, Sunday or bank holiday), in paragraph (a), the words “to be played on a Saturday, a Sunday or a day that is a bank holiday in England and Wales or in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971” are hereby repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As inserted by section 56(3) of the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (1993 c. 39)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1073/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:09:44.224510+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."
}