{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-instruments-act-1946/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-instruments-act-1946/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/9-10/36",
  "legislation_title": "Statutory Instruments Act 1946",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-instruments-act-1946",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Numbering, printing, publication and citation.",
  "text": "(1) Immediately after the making of any statutory instrument, it shall be sent to the King’s printer of Acts of Parliament and numbered in accordance with regulations made under this Act, and except in such cases as may be provided by any Act passed after the commencement of this Act or prescribed by regulations made under this Act, copies thereof shall as soon as possible be printed and sold by or under the authority of the King’s printer of Acts of Parliament.\n(2) Any statutory instrument may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the number given to it in accordance with the provisions of this section, and the calendar year.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2(1) inserted (retrospective to 26.3.1946) by 1996 c. 54, s. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 2 applied (12.8.2016) by House of Commons Members Fund Act 2016 (c. 18), ss. 6(5), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 2 applied by House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1948 (c. 36), s. 3(3)S. 2 excluded (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1096, art. 3(2); S.I. 1998/3178"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/9-10/36/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:25:10.239765+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}