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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-disclosure-of-information-designated-authorities-no-6-order-1989/article-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designation of authorities and specification of functions",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 449 of the Companies Act 1985 the Director General of Fair Trading is designated as an authority in relation to his functions under:—\n(a) Part III of the Fair Trading Act 1973;\n(b) the Consumer Credit Act 1974;\n(c) the Estate Agents Act 1979; and\n(d) the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2009/article/3",
    "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."
}