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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/23",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality Standards (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nCLEAN AIR\nMade 31st January 1996\nComing into operation 1st March 1996\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 the control of air pollution, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785"
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
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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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