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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-communications-act-2003-commencement-no-2-amendment-order-2004/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/545",
  "legislation_title": "Office of Communications Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3) and Communications Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) (Amendment) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-communications-act-2003-commencement-no-2-amendment-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the previous commencement order",
  "text": "(1) The Office of Communications Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3) and Communications Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2003 is amended as follows.\n(2) At the end of article 4 insert—\n“(4) The following provisions of the principal Act shall come into force on 1st July 2004—\n(a) section 278;\n(b) sections 351 and 353 (so far as not already in force); and\n(c) paragraph 8 of Schedule 12.”\n(3) In Schedule 2—\n(a) for “Sections 2, 351 and 353”, substitute “Section 2”;\n(b) omit the words “278 and”; and\n(c) omit the entry for paragraph 8 of Schedule 12.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/3142 (C. 125)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/545/article/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."
}