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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/security-service-act-1996/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/35",
  "legislation_title": "Security Service Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/security-service-act-1996",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Security Service Act 1996.\n(2) This Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by an order made by statutory instrument.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 4(2) power fully exercised (23.9.1996): 14.10.1996 for whole Act by S.I. 1996/2454, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/35/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:59.607124+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."
}