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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/888",
  "legislation_title": "The Online Safety Act 2023 (Commencement No. 6) Regulations 2025",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS\nMade 17th July 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 240(1) and (2) of the Online Safety Act 2023.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2023 c. 50. Section 240(3) of that Act prevents section 210 from being commenced before the end of the period of six months beginning with the date specified in regulations made under paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 3. Regulation 2 of S.I. 2024/571 specified that date as 2nd September 2024."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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