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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-civil-partnership-order-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3100",
  "legislation_title": "The Legislative Reform (Civil Partnership) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-civil-partnership-order-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Regulatory Reform\nMade 4th December 2012\nComing into force 5th December 2012\nThe Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (“the Secretary of State”) makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).\nFor the purposes of section 3(1) of the 2006 Act, the Secretary of State considers that, where relevant, the conditions under section 3(2) are satisfied.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with section 13(1) of the 2006 Act.\nThe Secretary of State has laid a draft of this Order and an explanatory document before Parliament in accordance with section 14(1) of the 2006 Act.\nPursuant to section 15 of the 2006 Act, the affirmative resolution procedure (within the meaning of Part 1 of that Act) applies in relation to the making of this Order.\nAfter the expiry of the 40-day period referred to in section 17(2) of the 2006 Act, each House has approved a draft of this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.51; see section 32 for the definitions of “Minister of the Crown” and “regulatory function”."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3100/introduction",
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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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