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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-amendment-regulations-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/447",
  "legislation_title": "The Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/action-programme-for-nitrate-vulnerable-zones-scotland-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nAgriculture\nWater\nMade 17th December 2009\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 18th December 2009\nComing into force 24th January 2010\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3) and by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) section 27(1). The function conferred on the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) was, so far as within devolved competence, transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/447/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."
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