{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/schedule-8/paragraph-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/schedule-8/paragraph-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/40",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "National security",
  "text": "(1) An order may make such provision as the person making the order considers to be appropriate in the interests of national security ... .\n(2) Such provision may, in particular, include provision requiring a person to do, or not to do, particular things.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 8 para. 20(1) omitted (4.1.2022) by virtue of National Security and Investment Act 2021 (c. 25), s. 66(3), Sch. 2 para. 10 (with s. 62); S.I. 2021/1465, regs. 2, 3 (with regs. 4, 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Schs. 7, 8: functions made exercisable concurrently (3.5.2023) by The Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/424), arts. 1(2), 15(2) (with arts. 16(5)(6), 17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/40/schedule/8/paragraph/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:50.931325+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."
}