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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-industrial-and-provident-societies-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1738",
  "legislation_title": "The Deregulation (Industrial and Provident Societies) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-industrial-and-provident-societies-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1965 Act” means the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965,\n“the 1967 Act” means the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1967,\n“the 1968 Act” means the Friendly and Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1968,\n“the 1974 Act” means the Friendly Societies Act 1974,\n“the 1979 Act” means the Credit Unions Act 1979.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1979 c. 34."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1738/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:39:54.649673+00:00"
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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."
}