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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-internal-markets-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/307",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Internal Markets) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-internal-markets-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electricity\nMade 4th December 2020\nComing into operation 31st December 2020\nThe Department for the Economy, is a Northern Ireland Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to energy and energy sources.\nThe Department for the Economy in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "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 section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act (c.7). The European Communities Act 1972 was repealed by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) with effect from exit day, but saved with modifications until IP completion day by section 1A of that Act (as inserted by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1))."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/761"
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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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