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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-designation-no-2-order-2011-revoked/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-designation-no-2-order-2011-revoked/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2718",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2011 (revoked)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-designation-no-2-order-2011-revoked",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nIn England, Wales and Northern Ireland, only “designated” Ministers and departments can exercise the powers in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) to make orders, rules, regulations and schemes. This is one of a series of Orders by which Ministers and departments are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to different subject areas.\nArticle 2 designates the Treasury in relation to discrimination.\nA full Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (31.12.2020) by The European Communities (Designation Orders) (Revocation) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1011), reg. 1, Sch.; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2718/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:31.711961+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."
}