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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1837-electronic-communications-amendment-order-2022/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2022/18",
  "legislation_title": "The Wills Act 1837 (Electronic Communications) (Amendment) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wills-act-1837-electronic-communications-amendment-order-2022",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been printed in correction of S.I. 2020/952 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nAdministration Of Estates, England And Wales\nMade 10th January 2022\nLaid before Parliament 11th January 2022\nComing into force 1st February 2022\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 8, 9(5) and (6) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000, makes the following Order.\nIn accordance with section 8(3) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000, the Secretary of State considers that the authorisation of the use of electronic communications by this Order for any purpose is such that the extent (if any) to which records of things done for that purpose will be available will be no less satisfactory in cases where use is made of electronic communications than in other cases.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 7. Section 9(1) of the Act provides that “the appropriate Minister” to make an order is the Secretary of State of the department related to the matter."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/18/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:05:08.938360+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."
}