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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these regulations –\n“the Order” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;\n“the Regulations” means the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.\n(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1714 (N.I. 19). See Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 167"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/206/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:12.050468+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."
}