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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-restriction-of-scope-of-act-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/318",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services Act 1986 (Restriction of Scope of Act) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-restriction-of-scope-of-act-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order restricts the scope of the Financial Services Act 1986 in certain respects. Article 2 restricts the scope of paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to the Act as it applies to certain arrangements made between insurance companies and persons whose ordinary business involves the lending of money. Article 3 restricts the scope of paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 to the Act as it applies to transactions involving the assignment of long term insurance contracts. Article 4 extends the scope of the exemption afforded by paragraph 21 of Schedule 1 to the Act. Article 5 makes provision as to the application of the Act to advice given in sound, television or cable programmes. Article 6 makes provision for the approval of international securities self-regulating organisations and the exclusion for certain purposes of their activities from activities which constitute the carrying on of investment business in the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/318/note",
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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."
}