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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-verification-of-information-in-passport-applications-etcspecified-persons-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110776781",
  "legislation_title": "The Verification of Information in Passport Applications Etc.(Specified Persons) Order 2007",
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  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specified Persons",
  "text": "(1) The following persons are specified for the purposes of section 38 of the 2006 Act (verifying information provided with passport applications etc.) —\n(a) the Registrar General for England and Wales; and\n(b) a credit reference agency with which the Secretary of State acting through the Identity and Passport Service has at the relevant time a contract for the supply of services relating to the provision of information concerning the identity of individuals.\n(2) In this article —\n“credit reference agency” means a person carrying on a business comprising the furnishing of information relevant to the financial standing of individuals, being information collected by the agency for that purpose; and\n“the relevant time” means the time when the particular requirement is imposed.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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