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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-etc-electronic-communications-and-electronic-storage-order-2009/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2821",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages etc. (Electronic Communications and Electronic Storage) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-marriages-etc-electronic-communications-and-electronic-storage-order-2009",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Modification of section 74 of the 1949 Act",
  "text": "In section 74 of the 1949 Act (the title to which becomes “Regulations and approval of electronic forms etc.” and which becomes subsection (1) of that section), at the end insert—\n“(2) The Registrar General may approve forms of electronic communications or electronic storage for the purposes of a provision of this Act; and a reference in this Act to an approved electronic form is to a form approved under this subsection for the purposes of that provision.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2821/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:03:51.898913+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."
}