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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-non-fossil-fuel-sources-england-and-wales-order-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/248",
  "legislation_title": "The Electricity (Non-Fossil Fuel Sources) (England and Wales) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-non-fossil-fuel-sources-england-and-wales-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ELECTRICITY\nMade 5th February 1997\nLaid before Parliament 6th February 1997\nComing into force 10th February 1997\nWhereas certain orders under section 32 of the Electricity Act 1989 have had effect in relation to each public electricity supplier in England and Wales;\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 32(1), (2), (2A), (2B) and (2C) of the said Act of 1989, after consultation in accordance with section 32(1), hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/263, as amended by S.I. 1990/494; S.I. 1990/1859; S.I. 1991/2490; S.I. 1994/3259, as amended by S.I. 1995/68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 29; subsections (2A), (2B) and (2C) were inserted in section 32 and a related definition was inserted in section 32(8) by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), Schedule 22, paragraph 39."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/248/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."
}