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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-lottery-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-lottery-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1055",
  "legislation_title": "The National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-lottery-etc-act-1993-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force\n(a) on 3rd May 1994 sections 48 and 49 and 51 to 55 and the remainder of section 64 of, and Schedules 7 and 8 and the remainder of Schedule 10 to, the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (which make provision in relation to the registration of societies and local lottery schemes, the frequency and conduct of lotteries, offences in connection with lotteries and supplementary provisions).\n(b) on 3rd October 1994 section 50 of, and Schedule 9 to, that Act (which make provision in relation to the conduct of societies' and local lotteries by lottery managers).\nThis Order also makes transitional provision in relation to the amendments made to sections 5 and 11 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to, the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976 by sections 48 and 52 of, and paragraph 7 of Part I of Schedule 7 to, the National Lottery etc. Act 1993 (which relate to the registration of societies, the rules for societies' and local lotteries and the matters to be specified in returns for societies' lotteries).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1055/note",
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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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