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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-third-country-importscharges-regulations-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-third-country-importscharges-regulations-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/639",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals (Third Country Imports)(Charges) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-third-country-importscharges-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 5th March 1997\nLaid before Parliament 10th March 1997\nComing into force 1st April 1997\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated for the purposes of Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "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."
}