{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-order-2003/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-order-2003/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3006",
  "legislation_title": "The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-order-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 31st December 2003.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales;\n“the Race Relations Act” means the Race Relations Act 1976;\n“staff” includes any person treated as an employee for the purposes of Part II of the Race Relations Act (discrimination in the employment field);\n“the 2001 Order” means the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) Order 2001, and\nreferences to “150 full-time staff” are references to such number of staff as would, if the hours they work were aggregated, amount to 150 staff working on a full-time basis.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3458."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3006/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:44:24.057552+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."
}