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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2006-dissolution-of-commissions-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2602",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2006 (Dissolution of Commissions and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2006-dissolution-of-commissions-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1975 Act” means the Sex Discrimination Act 1975;\n“the 1976 Act” means the Race Relations Act 1976;\n“the 1999 Act” means the Disability Rights Commission Act 1999;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Equality Act 2006;\nexcept in paragraph (2) of article 4 “the Commission” means the Commission for Equality and Human Rights; and\n“the former Commissions” means the Commission for Racial Equality, the Disability Rights Commission and the Equal Opportunities Commission.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.10.2007, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c.65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1976 c.74."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1999 c.17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2602/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:44:10.343016+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."
}