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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-sector-bodies-websites-and-mobile-applications-no-2-accessibility-regulations-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/952",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-sector-bodies-websites-and-mobile-applications-no-2-accessibility-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in SI 2018/852 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nEquality\nPublic Sector Information\nMade 29th August 2018\nLaid before Parliament 31st August 2018\nComing into force 23rd September 2018\nThe Minister for the Cabinet Office is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the accessibility of public sector bodies’ websites and mobile applications.\nThe Minister for the Cabinet Office makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of that Act, and it appears to the Minister for the Cabinet Office that it is expedient for certain references to provisions of EU instruments to be construed as references to those provisions as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations: transfer of functions (3.6.2025) by The Transfer of Functions (Digital Government) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/557), arts. 1(2), 3 (with arts. 5-8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), and section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2018/622."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and amended by section 3(3) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) and S.I. 2007/1388."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/952/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:54:27.559366+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."
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