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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-codes-of-practice-services-public-functions-and-associations-employment-and-equal-pay-order-2011/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/857",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 Codes of Practice (Services, Public Functions and Associations, Employment, and Equal Pay) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/equality-act-2010-codes-of-practice-services-public-functions-and-associations-employment-and-equal-pay-order-2011",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Equality Act 2010 Codes of Practice (Services, Public Functions and Associations, Employment, and Equal Pay) Order 2011 and comes into force immediately after the Former Equality Commissions’ Codes of Practice (Employment, Equal Pay, and Rights of Access for Disabled Persons) (Revocation) Order 2011.\n(2) In this Order, “the codes” means the Equality Act 2010 Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations, the Equality Act 2010 Code of Practice on Employment and the Equality Act 2010 Code of Practice on Equal Pay issued by the Commission under section 14(1) of the Equality Act 2006 on 26th January 2011.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2011/776."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "ISBN 9780108509728."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "ISBN 9780108509735."
    },
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      "label": "f4",
      "text": "ISBN 9780108509742."
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 14(1) was substituted by the Equality Act 2010 (c. 15), section 211(1) and Schedule 26, paragraphs 6, 10(1) and 10(2)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/857/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:11:47.868240+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."
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