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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-1998/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3117",
  "legislation_title": "The General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-optical-council-membership-order-of-council-1998",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the General Optical Council (Membership) Order of Council 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999, except for article 3 which shall come into force on 1st January 2002.\n(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Opticians Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3117/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:07.333225+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}