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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-designation-order-2020/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/533",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Designation) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-designation-order-2020",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and expiry",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) Order 2020 and comes into force on 17th June 2020.\n(2) This Order ceases to have effect on IP completion day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "IP Completion day is defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) by reference to section 39 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c.1), as 11.00 p.m. on 31 December 2020."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/533/article/1",
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  },
  "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."
}