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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-drivers-hours-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/regulation-2",
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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": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation” means Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as amended from time to time.\n(1A) The Department for Infrastructure is the competent authority for the purpose of these Regulations.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.\n(3) Any expression used in these Regulations which is used in the Community Drivers' Hours Regulation has the same meaning as in that Regulation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1A) inserted (18.2.2019) by The Road Traffic and Vehicles and Waterways (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/6), regs. 1(1), 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1954 c.33 (N.I.)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/248/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:15:11.606039+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}