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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-billing-regulations-2014/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1648",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Billing) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-billing-regulations-2014",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electricity\nGas\nMade 24th June 2014\nLaid before Parliament 26th June 2014\nComing into force 17th July 2014\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to energy and energy sources. He makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/761."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by section 3(3) of and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
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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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