{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-network-user-stations-exemption-regulations-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-network-user-stations-exemption-regulations-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2137",
  "legislation_title": "The Wireless Telegraphy (Network User Stations) (Exemption) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wireless-telegraphy-network-user-stations-exemption-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TELEGRAPHS\nMade 2nd September 1997\nLaid before Parliament 4th September 1997\nComing into force 1st October 1997\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and 3(1)(a) and (b) of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 as enacted, and now vested in her, the power conferred on her by section 84(1)(b) of the Telecommunications Act 1984, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 54; sections 1 and 3 were extended to the Channel Islands by S.I. 1952/1900, as amended by S.I. 1967/1279 and S.I. 1969/1369, and to the Isle of Man by S.I. 1952/1899; there are amendments to section 1(1) not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), section 3; S.I. 1969/1369, article 3; S.I. 1969/1371, article 2; S.I. 1974/691, article 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1984 c. 12; section 84 was extended to the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Isle of Man by S.I. 1994/1064 and S.I. 1995/268 respectively but has not been extended to the Bailiwick of Jersey."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2137/introduction",
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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."
}