{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1208",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and shall come into force on 26th May 2011.\n(2) In these Regulations “the 2003 Regulations” means the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 26.5.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2426; which have been amended, but those amendments are not relevant to these regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1208/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:07:48.611519+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."
}