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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-acts-amendment-regulations-1992/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2823",
  "legislation_title": "The Firearms Acts (Amendment) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firearms-acts-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ARMS AND AMMUNITION\nMade 11th November 1992\nComing into force 1st January 1993\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament in pursuance of paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of subsection (2) of section 2 of that Act in relation to measures relating to firearms and ammunition, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that subsection, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/755)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2823/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."
}