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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-drivers-hours-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/248",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Drivers' Hours Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-drivers-hours-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "European Communities\nRoad Traffic And Vehicles\nMade 21st June 2012\nComing into operation 30th July 2012\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 .\nThe Department of the Environment is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act in relation to the measures relating to the organisation of working time.\nIt appears to the Department of the Environment that it is necessary or expedient that references to Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council in these Regulations be construed as references to that Community instrument as amended from time to time.",
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      "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 section 3(3) and Part I of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)"
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      "text": "S.I. 1997/1174"
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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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