{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973-commencement-order-1976/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-agencies-act-1973-commencement-order-1976/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order brings the Employment Agencies Act 1973 into force on the following dates:—\n(a)all provisions except section 1—on 1st July 1976;\n(b)section 1 (which requires employment agencies and employment business to be licensed):\n(i)in relation to any person to whom section 1(3) 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(ii)or 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/note",
    "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."
}