{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2001-commencement-order-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2001-commencement-order-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3089",
  "legislation_title": "The Finance Act 2001 (Commencement) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2001-commencement-order-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 6 of the Finance Act 2001 comes into force on 6th October 2001—\n(a) in relation to spread bets that are made on or after that date; and\n(b) in relation to bets other than spread bets irrespective of when those bets were or are made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 3(2) of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (c. 63) defines “spread bet”; section 3 is substituted by Schedule 1 to the Finance Act 2001."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3089/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:28:57.409333+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."
}