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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity and Gas (Internal Markets) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-and-gas-internal-markets-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Energy\nMade 28th March 2017\nLaid before Parliament 30th March 2017\nComing into force 24th April 2017\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to energy and energy sources.\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "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). Other amendments have been made that are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
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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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