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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-billing-regulations-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1163",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Billing) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-billing-regulations-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electricity\nGas\nMade 23rd April 2008\nLaid before Parliament 24th April 2008\nComing into force 17th May 2008\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the regulation of the electricity sector and measures relating to natural gas and oil. He makes the following Regulations under powers conferred by that section:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/745."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/738."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1163/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."
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