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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110722671",
  "legislation_title": "The Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-opticians-act-1989-amendment-order-2005",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Opticians Act 1989 (Amendment) Order 2005.\n(2) This article and articles 22, 25 and 29(2) to (4) shall come into force forthwith on the making of this Order.\n(3) Those provisions of this Order which confer powers enabling rules, regulations or orders to be made shall come into force forthwith on the making of this Order, but for the purpose only of the exercise of those powers.\n(4) The provisions of this Order in so far as they are not brought into force by paragraphs (2) and (3) shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may specify.\n(5) Different days may be specified under paragraph (4) for different purposes.\n(6) The Secretary of State shall notify any day specified and, if different purposes are specified, the purposes for which it is specified in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes at least one week before that day.\n(7) Subject to paragraph (8), this Order shall extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n(8) The extent of any amendment to any enactment or instrument in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 1 to this Order is the same as that of the enactment or instrument amended.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110722671/article/1",
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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."
}