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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-freedom-of-information-designation-as-public-authorities-order-2015/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111126844",
  "legislation_title": "The Freedom of Information (Designation as Public Authorities) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-freedom-of-information-designation-as-public-authorities-order-2015",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Persons designated as public authorities",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 2(2), each person listed in column 1 of the table in the Schedule is designated as a public authority under section 5(1)(a) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 with respect to the functions specified in the corresponding entry in column 2.\n(2) The functions in column 2 exclude any function in connection with which a person listed in column 1 makes a charge or obtains consideration of any kind, unless the purpose of exercising the function is to enable an operator to use or operate a railway asset.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111126844/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:10:52.846443+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."
}