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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/section-279",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/section-279.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/40",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002",
  "path": "section/279",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "279",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The preceding provisions of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 279 power partly exercised: 18.3.2003 appointed for specified provisions by {S.I. 2003/765}, art. 2; 1.4.2003 by {S.I. 2003/766}, art. 2 (with transitional and transitory provision in art. 3); 20.6.2003 by {S.I. 2003/1397}, art. 2 (with savings in arts. 4-12); 18.12.2003 by {S.I. 2003/3340}, art. 3; 15.9.2003 and 1.4.2004 by {S.I. 2003/2093}, art. 2 (subject to transitional provisions in arts. 3-8) (as amended by S.I. 2003/2332 and S.I. 2003/3340); 18.12.2003 by {S.I. 2003/3340}, art. 3; 18.7.2004 by {S.I. 2004/1866}, art. 2; 29.12.2004 by {S.I. 2004/3233}, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in arts. 3-5)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/40/section/279",
    "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."
}