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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-2009/rule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/642",
  "legislation_title": "The Insolvency (Amendment) Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/insolvency-amendment-rules-2009",
  "path": "rule/2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the principal Rules” mean the Insolvency Rules 1986 (any reference to a numbered Part or Rule is a reference to a Part or Rule so numbered in the principal Rules unless the context otherwise requires);\n“the Act” means the Insolvency Act 1986 (any reference to a numbered section being a reference to a section of that Act).",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1925 as amended by S.I. 1987/1919, 1989/397, 1991/495, 1993/602, 1995/586, 1999/359, 1999/1022, 2001/763, 2002/1307, 2002/2712, 2003/1730, 2004/584, 2004/1070, 2005/527, 2006/1272, 2007/1974 and 2008/737."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/642/rule/2",
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  "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."
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