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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/317",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality Standards Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CLEAN AIR\nMade 2nd March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 9th March 1989\nComing into force 31st March 1989\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, being the Ministers designated for the purposes of that subsection in relation to the control of air pollution, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/317/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."
}