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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-societies-act-1986-accounts-audit-and-eea-state-amendments-order-2008/article-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110813912",
  "legislation_title": "The Building Societies Act 1986 (Accounts, Audit and EEA State Amendments) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-building-societies-act-1986-accounts-audit-and-eea-state-amendments-order-2008",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of definition of “EEA State”",
  "text": "In section 97 of the 1986 Act (transfer of business to commercial company), in subsection (13), for the words from “means a Contracting Party” to the end, substitute “has the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 97(13) was inserted by the Building Societies Act 1997 (c. 32), section 43 and Schedule 7, paragraph 45(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “EEA state” was inserted into Schedule 1 of the Interpretation Act 1978 by section 26 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
    }
  ],
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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."
}