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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-266",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3649",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
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  "path": "article/266",
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  "number": "266",
  "heading": "Meaning of “legal proceedings”",
  "text": "In section 10 of the Bankers' Books Evidence Act 1879 (interpretation), in the definition of “legal proceedings”, for paragraph (c) substitute—\n“(c) an investigation, consideration or determination of a complaint by a member of the panel of ombudsmen for the purposes of the ombudsman scheme within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 266 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (c) was substituted by the Building Societies Act 1997 (c. 32) s. 45(1)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3649/article/266",
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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."
}