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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-authorisation-regulations-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1982",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Authorisation) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-authorisation-regulations-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES\nMade 20th July 1994\nLaid before Parliament 1st August 1994\nComing into force 1st September 1994\nThe Friendly Societies Commission, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 13 to, and section 121(3) of, the Friendly Societies Act 1992 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 40; section 119(1) contains a definition of “the Commission”."
    }
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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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