{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-departments-registers-amendment-order-2009/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-departments-registers-amendment-order-2009/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1736",
  "legislation_title": "The Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-departments-registers-amendment-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2009 and shall come into force on 1st September 2009.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the principal Order” means the Service Departments Registers Order 1959;\n“required form” means such form as may be provided by the Registrar General of England and Wales who is appointed under section 1 of the Registration Service Act 1953.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.9.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1959/406. This order has been amended by various instruments, including S.I. 2007/908 which inserted articles 3A and 3B."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1953 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1736",
      "affecting_title": "The Service Departments Registers (Amendment) Order 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1736/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:09:48.818687+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."
}