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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-of-state-for-business-innovation-and-skills-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2748",
  "legislation_title": "The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-of-state-for-business-innovation-and-skills-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order “instrument” includes, in particular, Royal Charters, Royal Warrants, Orders in Council, Letters Patent, judgments, decrees, orders, rules, regulations, schemes, bye-laws, awards, licences, authorisations, consents, approvals, contracts and other agreements, memoranda and articles of association, certificates, deeds and other documents.\n(2) In this Order a reference to a function of a Minister is to be read, in the case of a function which is exercisable by the Minister jointly with another person or is otherwise shared by the Minister, as a reference to the Minister’s share of the function.\n(3) For the purposes of this Order, a function is a “former BERR function” so far as—\n(a) it is transferred by article 4(1), or\n(b) it was entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform immediately before 5 June 2009 and has before the making of this Order been entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.\n(4) For the purposes of this Order, a function is a “former IUS function” so far as—\n(a) it is transferred by article 4(2), or\n(b) it was entrusted to the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills immediately before 5 June 2009 and has before the making of this Order been entrusted to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 13.11.2009, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
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  "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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