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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-semiconductor-topographies-regulations-1989/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-semiconductor-topographies-regulations-1989/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1100",
  "legislation_title": "The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-semiconductor-topographies-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "DESIGNS\nMade 29th June 1989\nComing into force 1st August 1989\nWhereas a draft of the following Regulations has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, being designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the conferment and protection of exclusive rights in the topographies of semiconductor products, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2(2) hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/448."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1100/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."
}