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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1709",
  "legislation_title": "The Government Stock (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL DEBT\nMade 15th July 1997\nComing into force 1st September 1997\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 6(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (which by virtue of section 6(2) of that Act replaces section 47(3) of the Finance Act 1942) and a period of forty days beginning with the date of laying has expired and neither House has resolved that the Regulations be not made:\nNow, therefore, the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 47(1) of the Finance Act 1942, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1946 c. 36."
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1942 c. 21; section 47 was amended by the National Debt Act 1958 (7 &8 Eliz. 2 c. 6), the Schedule, by the Finance Act 1964 (c. 49), section 24 and Schedules 8 and 9, paragraphs 1 and 2, by the Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), section 108(1)(d), by the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), section 183(1), and by the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), section 202(1) and (2), and extended by the Bank of England Act 1946 (c. 27), section 1(5) and Schedule 1, paragraph 6, by the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946 (c. 59), section 33(6), by the National Loans Act 1968 (c. 13), section 16(3) and (4A) (which was inserted by the Finance Act 1996, section 202(4)), by the Iron and Steel Act 1975 (c. 64), section 38(1) and Schedule 6, paragraph 14(3)(b), and by the Stock Transfer Act 1982 (c. 41), section 3 and Schedule 2, paragraph 2."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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