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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-of-state-for-business-innovation-and-skills-order-2009/article-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Supplemental: validity of things done before coming into force of Order",
  "text": "(1) This Order does not affect the validity of anything done (or having effect as if done) by or in relation to—\n(a) the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, or\n(b) the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills,\nbefore the coming into force of this Order.\n(2) In paragraph (1) a reference to a Secretary of State includes a reference to the department or an officer of that Secretary of State.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 13.11.2009, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2748/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:04:37.576515+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."
}