{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/839",
  "legislation_title": "The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-and-registration-service-act-2007-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2008",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 1st April 2008 those provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 which are not already in force.\nThose provisions are as follows:\nsections 8 and 9 which make provision for the general functions of the Statistics Board (“the Board”) relating to official statistics;\nsections 12 to 19 which make provision in relation to national statistics;\nsections 20 and 21 which make provision in relation to the production of statistics;\nsections 22 and 23 which make provision in relation to additional statistical functions of the Board;\nsection 25 which transfers the functions of the Registrar General for England and Wales in relation to the census (Schedule 1);\nsections 27 and 29 which make supplemental provisions in relation to the Board’s functions;\nsections 30 to 37 which provide for the organisation and administration of the Board;\nsections 38 and 41 which make provision in relation to the use and disclosure of information by the Board;\nsections 42 to 46 which make provision in relation to information sharing (Schedule 2);\nsections 55 to 60 which make consequential provisions (Schedule 3);\nsections 61 to 64 which make miscellaneous provisions;\nsection 68 which amends the Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37) to incorporate the Registrar General;\nsection 73 which makes provision in relation to repeals (Schedule 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/839/note",
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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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