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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-amendment-regulations-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2701",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-amendment-regulations-2013",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Trade Descriptions\nMade 19th October 2013\nLaid before Parliament 23rd October 2013\nComing into force 14th November 2013\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the control of advertising, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/749."
    },
    {
      "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 by section 3(3) of and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
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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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