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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-communications-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2003/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3142",
  "legislation_title": "The Office of Communications Act 2002 (Commencement No. 3) and Communications Act 2003 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/office-of-communications-act-2002-commencement-no-3-and-communications-act-2003-commencement-no-2-order-2003",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Transitional provision: advisory bodies under Telecommunications Act 1984, section 54",
  "text": "If, upon the repeal of section 54 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 on 29th December 2003, any of the advisory bodies established thereunder has not ceased to exist by virtue of an order under section 31(5) of the principal Act, subsections (7) and (8) of the said section 54 shall continue to have effect in respect of that body until it ceases to exist as if the reference to the Director in subsection (7) were a reference to OFCOM and the reference thereto in subsection (8) were omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Director General of Telecommunications, appointed under 1984 c. 12, section 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3142/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:38:20.046996+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."
}