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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-limit-values-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2002/94",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality Limit Values Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-limit-values-regulations-northern-ireland-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 8th March 2002\nComing into operation 1st May 2002\nThe Department of the Environment, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the control of pollution in ambient air, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/94/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."
}