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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-communications-act-2003-disclosure-of-information-order-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2024/9780348263268",
  "legislation_title": "The Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-communications-act-2003-disclosure-of-information-order-2024",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order extends the circumstances in which information with respect to a particular business obtained by the Office of Communications in exercise of a power conferred under the Communications Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”), the Broadcasting Act 1990, the Broadcasting Act 1996 or the Online Safety Act 2023 (“the 2023 Act”) may be disclosed.\nSection 393(2)(b) of the 2003 Act provides that the restrictions on disclosing such information imposed by section 393(1) do not apply to any disclosure of information which is made for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out by any relevant person of any relevant function. Relevant persons are described in section 393(3). Relevant functions are described in section 393(4).\nArticle 2 specifies any function under the 2023 Act as a relevant function for the purposes of section 393(4) of the 2003 Act.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private sector, voluntary sector or community bodies is foreseen.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348263268/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:40:49.783114+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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