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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-placing-on-the-market-amendment-regulations-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1139",
  "legislation_title": "The Batteries and Accumulators (Placing on the Market) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/batteries-and-accumulators-placing-on-the-market-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 24th April 2012\nLaid before Parliament 25th April 2012\nComing into force 31st May 2012\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in respect of matters relating to batteries and accumulators.\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/3471."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1139/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."
}