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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-and-risk-assessment-amendment-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1900",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release and Risk Assessment-Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-and-risk-assessment-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 30th July 1997\nLaid before Parliament 4th August 1997\nComing into force 25th August 1997\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, acting jointly as respects England, the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 108(7) and (10), 111(1), (4) (7) and (11) and 126(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, and all of those Secretaries of State and that Minister acting jointly as respects Great Britain, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by subsection (2) of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 being designated for the purposes of that subsection in relation to the control and regulation of genetically modified organisms, and in each case in exercise of all other powers so enabling them, hereby make the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/755."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1900/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."
}