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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-20/paragraph-23",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/20/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Describing a product as “gratis”, “free”, “without charge” or similar if the consumer has to pay anything other than the unavoidable cost of responding to the commercial practice and collecting or paying for delivery of the item.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 20 para. 23 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 20 para. 23 in force at 6.4.2025 by S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(11)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}