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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-distance-marketing-regulations-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2095",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services (Distance Marketing) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-distance-marketing-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS\nMade 4th August 2004\nLaid before Parliament 5th August 2004\nComing into force 31st October 2004\nThe Treasury, being a government department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to matters concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services, in the exercise of the powers conferred on them by that section, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2004/1283."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183)."
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations: power to modify conferred (11.7.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 3, 86(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 2; S.I. 2023/779, reg. 2(d)"
    }
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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."
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