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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-amendment-regulations-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3034",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Insurance Business) (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES\nMade 11th December 1998\nLaid before Parliament 11th December 1998\nComing into force 1st January 1999\nThe Friendly Societies Commission, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the authorisation and carrying on by friendly societies of insurance business and the regulation of such business and its conduct and in relation to anything supplemental or incidental to such matters in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and, with the consent of the Treasury, in exercise of the power conferred upon it by section 45 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/3197)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1992 c. 40."
    }
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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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