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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-directive-financial-services-and-markets-regulations-2002/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1775",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-commerce-directive-financial-services-and-markets-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "These Regulations may be cited as the Electronic Commerce Directive (Financial Services and Markets) Regulations 2002, and come into force—\n(a) for the purpose of enabling the Authority to make rules, on 18th July 2002;\n(b) otherwise, on 21st August 2002.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1775/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:53:07.991349+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."
}