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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-summary-financial-statement-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/179",
  "legislation_title": "Companies (Summary Financial Statement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-summary-financial-statement-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "COMPANIES\nMade 30th April 1996\nComing into operation 10th June 1996\nThe Department of Economic Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 253(3) and (4) and 259(1), (2) and (3) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 253 was substituted by Articles 3 and 14 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/593 (N.I. 5))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Article 259 was substituted by Articles 3 and 17 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990, and was amended by S.R. 1993 No. 220"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/179/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."
}