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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-no-2-regulations-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2520",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Insurance Business No. 2) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-insurance-business-no-2-regulations-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES\nMade 19th October 1993\nLaid before Parliament 21st October 1993\nComing into force 1st January 1994\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 of the 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 powers conferred upon it by sections 45(1) and (2), 46(1), (3) and (8), 48(1), (2), (6) and (7), 49(1), 56(1), (2) and (5) and 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": "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; section 199(1) contains a definition of “the Commission”."
    }
  ],
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  "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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