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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111524404",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Auditors (Amendment of Companies Act 2006 and Delegation of Functions etc) Order 2012",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2008 Regulations” means the Limited Liability Partnerships (Accounts and Audit) (Application of Companies Act 2006) Regulations 2008;\n“the Act” means the Companies Act 2006;\n“coming into force” means the coming into force of this Order;\n“the designated body” means the Financial Reporting Council Limited; and\n“LLPs” means limited liability partnerships.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/1911, amended by S.I. 2009/1804; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
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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."
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