{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973-commencement-order-1976/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973-commencement-order-1976/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/709",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Agencies Act 1973 (Commencement) Order 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973-commencement-order-1976",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointed dates",
  "text": "(1) All the provisions of the Act, except for section 1, shall come into force on 1st July 1976.\n(2) Section 1 of the Act shall come into force—\n(a) in relation to any person to whom subsection (3) of section 1 of the Act applies for the purpose of any employment agency carried on by him under the authority of a local authority licence, on 30th June 1976; and\n(b) for all other purposes, on 1st November 1976.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/709/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:25:30.224903+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."
}