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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-disclosure-of-information-designated-authorities-no-6-order-1989/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2009",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services (Disclosure of Information) (Designated Authorities) (No. 6) Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-disclosure-of-information-designated-authorities-no-6-order-1989",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of authorities and specification of functions",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 180 of the Financial Services Act 1986,\n(a) the Director General of Fair Trading is designated as an authority in relation to his functions under:\n(i) the Fair Trading Act 1973 (other than Part II of that Act);\n(ii) the Consumer Credit Act 1974;\n(iii) the Estate Agents Act 1979;\n(iv) the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988;\n(v) the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976; and\n(vi) the Competition Act 1980; and\n(b) the Monopolies and Mergers Commission are designated as an authority in relation to their functions under the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1974 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1979 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/915; these regulations were made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) to implement Council Directive No. 84/450/EEC (OJ No. L250, 19.9.84, p.17) relating to misleading advertising;"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1976 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1980 c. 21."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Competition Commission) Transitional, Consequential and Supplemental Provisions Order 1999"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/1999/506",
      "affecting_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Competition Commission) Transitional, Consequential and Supplemental Provisions Order 1999"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    },
    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    },
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      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2009/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:26.754009+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."
}