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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-long-term-insurance-business-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2132",
  "legislation_title": "The Friendly Societies (Long Term Insurance Business) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/friendly-societies-long-term-insurance-business-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FRIENDLY SOCIETIES\nMade 10th December 1987\nLaid before Parliament 10th December 1987\nComing into force 1st January 1988\nThe Registry of Friendly Societies, 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 thereto, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The European Communities (Designation) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/353)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
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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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