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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/967",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 27th April 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3217, extended to include the States of the European Economic Area by virtue of section 2(1) of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/967/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:15.524507+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}