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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111145104",
  "legislation_title": "The Modern Slavery Act 2015 (Code of Practice) Regulations 2016",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under paragraph 5(8) of Schedule 2 to the Modern Slavery Act 2015, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nModern Slavery\nMade ***\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 5(6) of Schedule 2 to the Modern Slavery Act 2015, makes the following Regulations.\nThe code which is brought into operation by these Regulations has been laid before Parliament in accordance with paragraph 5(10) of Schedule 2 to that Act.\nA draft of these Regulations has been laid before Parliament and has been approved by each House of Parliament in accordance with paragraph 5(8) of Schedule 2 to that Act.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2015 c.30."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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