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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/490",
  "legislation_title": "The Building (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/building-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Building And Buildings, England And Wales\nMade 11th April 2016\nLaid before Parliament 13th April 2016\nComing into force 9th May 2016\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to electronic communications.\nThe Secretary of State has consulted the Building Regulations Advisory Committee for England and such other bodies as appear to be representative of the interests concerned in accordance with section 14(3) of the Building Act 1984.\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and by sections 1, 1A, 3, 8(6), 34, 35 and 126 of, and paragraphs 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Schedule 1 to, the Building Act 1984.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3495."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) 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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1984 c.55. Section 1 was amended by section 1(1) to (3) and section 1A inserted by section 2 of the Sustainable and Secure Buildings Act 2004. Section 14(3) was amended by Article 8(1) and (3) of S.I. 2009/3019. Section 126 is cited for the definition “prescribed”. There are other amendments but none is relevant to this instrument."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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