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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-community-driving-licence-regulations-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1420",
  "legislation_title": "The Driving Licences (Community Driving Licence) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/driving-licences-community-driving-licence-regulations-1998",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 6th June 1998\nLaid before Parliament 9th June 1998\nComing into force 1st July 1998\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the licensing of drivers of motor vehicles, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1536."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; by virtue of section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51), section 1(2) of that Act is amended to enable regulations to be made under section 2(2) to implement obligations of the United Kingdom arising under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and a Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th May 1994 (Cm 2183)."
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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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