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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-industrial-and-provident-societies-and-credit-unions-order-2011/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2687",
  "legislation_title": "The Legislative Reform (Industrial and Provident Societies and Credit Unions) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legislative-reform-industrial-and-provident-societies-and-credit-unions-order-2011",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Legislative Reform (Industrial and Provident Societies and Credit Unions) Order 2011 and shall come into force as follows—\n(a) article 15(4)(a) at the same time that section 5(2) of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 comes into force; and\n(b) the remainder at the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which it is made.\n(2) This Order extends to Great Britain only, except article 22 which also extends to Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 8.1.2012, see art. 1(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c.7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2687/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:51.413385+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."
}