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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-26/paragraph-3",
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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/26/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Criterion 3: expertise",
  "text": "The ADR provider has appropriate knowledge and skills—\n(a) for carrying out the ADR that it carries out, in relation to the disputes it deals with, or\n(b) for making the special ADR arrangements that it makes.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 3 in force at 6.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/284, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(4)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/26/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
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