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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/223",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 12th December 2019\nComing into force 6th January 2020\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, and by Article 8(4) of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, having consulted the Food Standards Agency in accordance with Article 22(5) of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) is amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I.1991/1714 (N.I.19)."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/223/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."
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