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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-26/paragraph-4",
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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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Criterion 4: facilities for consumers and traders to participate",
  "text": "(1) The ADR provider provides accessible means for consumers to refer disputes to it.\n(2) The ADR provider or, as the case may be, any other ADR provider with whom it makes special ADR arrangements, ensures there are accessible means for the parties to participate in the ADR carried out in relation to their dispute.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 4 in force at 6.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/284, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(4)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/26/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}