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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-amendment-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/117",
  "legislation_title": "The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Amendment) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/late-payment-of-commercial-debts-amendment-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Contracts, England And Wales\nContracts, Northern Ireland\nMade 23rd January 2018\nLaid before Parliament 5th February 2018\nComing into force 26th February 2018\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to matters relating to the combating of late payment in commercial transactions, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section of that Act and section 14A of the Interpretation Act 1978.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/248."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7). The enabling powers of section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c.51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c.30. Section14A was inserted by section 59(2) of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c.24)."
    }
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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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