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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/491",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FIRE SERVICES\nMade 14th October 1996\nComing into operation 25th November 1996\nThe Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 9(5) of the Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/1821 (N.I. 11); see Art. 2(2) for definition of “the Department”"
    }
  ],
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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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