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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/136",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-and-pharmaceutical-services-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1996.\n(2) In these regulations, the “principal regulations” means the Health and Personal Social Services (General Medical and Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1973.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 421; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1975 No. 180, S.R. 1983 No. 182, S.R. 1987 No. 247, S.R. 1989 No. 454, S.R. 1991 Nos. 97 and 476, S.R. 1993 No. 158, and S.R. 1995 Nos. 56, 126 and 487"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/136/regulation/1",
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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."
}