{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-supplementary-provision-order-2009/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2478",
  "legislation_title": "The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Supplementary Provision) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/human-fertilisation-and-embryology-supplementary-provision-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Supplementary Provision) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 1st October 2009.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1990 Act” means the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.\n(3) Expressions used in this Order and in the 1990 Act have the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2478/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:05:40.785011+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."
}