{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-guarantees-and-overseas-investment-act-1978-repealed-23101991/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-guarantees-and-overseas-investment-act-1978-repealed-23101991/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/18",
  "legislation_title": "Export Guarantees and Overseas Investment Act 1978 (repealed 23.10.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-guarantees-and-overseas-investment-act-1978-repealed-23101991",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Short title, repeals, revocation, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Export Guarantees and Overseas Investment Act 1978.\n(2) The enactments specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.\n(3) The Export Guarantees (Extension of Period) (No. 2) Order 1978 is hereby revoked.\n(4) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.\n(5) It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/322."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 16(2)(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/18/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:04.043511+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."
}