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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eec-merger-controlconsequential-provisions-regulations-1990/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eec-merger-controlconsequential-provisions-regulations-1990/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1563",
  "legislation_title": "The EEC Merger Control(Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eec-merger-controlconsequential-provisions-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS\nMade 27th July 1990\nComing into force 21st September 1990\nWhereas a draft of these 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 measures relating to the control of concentrations between undertakings, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the said section 2(2) and by section 75F(1) and (2) of the Fair Trading Act 1973 hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1304."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1973 c. 41; sections 75A to 75F of that Act were inserted by section 146 of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1563/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."
}