{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/250",
  "legislation_title": "Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-contained-use-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1994.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1994 No. 143, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/250/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:28.149999+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."
}