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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identity-documents-act-2010/section-13",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/40",
  "legislation_title": "Identity Documents Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/identity-documents-act-2010",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "(1) The repeal and re-enactment of provisions by this Act does not affect the continuity of the law.\n(2) Any subordinate legislation or other thing which—\n(a) has been made or done under or for the purposes of a provision repealed and re-enacted by this Act, and\n(b) is in force or effective immediately before commencement,\nhas effect after commencement as if made or done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of this Act.\n(3) Any reference (express or implied) in any enactment, instrument or document to a provision of this Act is to be read as including, in relation to times, circumstances or purposes in relation to which any corresponding provision repealed by this Act had effect, a reference to that corresponding provision.\nThis subsection applies only so far as the context permits.\n(4) Any reference (express or implied) in any enactment, instrument or document to a provision repealed and re-enacted by this Act is to be read, in relation to times, circumstances or purposes in relation to which the corresponding provision of this Act has effect, as a reference or (as the context may require) as including a reference to that corresponding provision.\nThis subsection applies only so far as the context permits.\n(5) Any reference to a provision repealed and re-enacted by this Act which is contained in a document made, served or issued after commencement is to be read, except so far as a contrary intention appears, as a reference or (as the context may require) as including a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.\n(6) In this section “commencement” means the commencement of this section.\n(7) This section has effect instead of section 17(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978 (but is without prejudice to section 16 and the other provisions of that Act).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/40/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:44.513889+00:00",
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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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