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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-functions-relating-to-broadcast-advertising-and-specification-of-relevant-functions-order-2004/article-8",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2004/011049394X",
  "legislation_title": "Contracting Out (Functions relating to Broadcast Advertising) and Specification of Relevant Functions Order 2004",
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  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Exercise of functions by an authorised person",
  "text": "(1) Where any provision of the enactments listed in paragraph (3) authorises or requires anything to be done by OFCOM in connection with or for the purposes of a function which may also be exercised by an authorised person, each such enactment shall have effect in any case where that function is so exercised by that person as if a reference to OFCOM included a reference to the authorised person.\n(2) In the enactments listed in paragraph (3) any reference to a thing done by OFCOM shall have effect where it is done by an authorised person as though it included a reference to a thing done by that person.\n(3) The enactments are—\n(a) the 2003 Act;\n(b) the 1996 Act;\n(c) the 1990 Act;\n(d) the 1994 Regulations; and\n(e) the 1988 Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2004/011049394X/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:23:52.207104+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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