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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eec-requirements-amendment-regulations-1985/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eec-requirements-amendment-regulations-1985/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1985/306",
  "legislation_title": "The EEC Requirements (Amendment) Regulations 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eec-requirements-amendment-regulations-1985",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES\nMade 4th March 1985\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1985\nComing into Operation 1st April 1985\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the regulation of specifications, construction, placing on the market and use of equipment intended for weighing, measuring or testing or for purposes ancillary thereto, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/427."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "see sections 37, 40, 46 and 54 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48), S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3), 447, 526 and S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 253."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1985/306/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."
}