{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-regulations-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-regulations-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1611",
  "legislation_title": "The Government Stock Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL DEBT\nMade 30th June 2004\nComing into force in accordance with article 1\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been laid before Parliament under section 6(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 (which supersedes 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 upon them by section 47 of the Finance Act 1942, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations: power to modify conferred (17.12.2024) by 2023 c. 29, ss. 13, 17 (as amended by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Addition of Relevant Enactments) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1347), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1946 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1942 c. 21. Section 47 was amended by the Finance Act 1964 (c. 49), sections 24 and 26(7) and Schedule 8, paragraph 2; the Stock Transfer Act 1982 (c. 41), section 3 and Schedule 2, paragraph 2; the Finance Act 1989 (c. 26), section 183; the Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), section 202; the Bank of England Act 1998 (c. 11), section 34; the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), section 140; and by S.I. 1998/1446, article 30(2) and Schedule 2, Part 1, by S.I. 2002/2521, article 10(2) and Schedule 2 Part 1; and by S.I. 2004/1486, article 2."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1611/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:23:50.581776+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."
}