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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-departments-registers-amendment-order-2002/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-departments-registers-amendment-order-2002/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3122",
  "legislation_title": "The Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-departments-registers-amendment-order-2002",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Service Departments (Amendment) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 18th December 2002.\n(2) In this Order “the 1959 Order” means the Service Departments Registers Order 1959.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1959/406 amended by S.I. 1963/1624, section 1(3) of the Defence (Transfer of Functions) Act 1964 (c. 15) and S.I. 1988/1295."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3122/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:35:45.380099+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."
}