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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-and-risk-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/534",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release and Risk Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-deliberate-release-and-risk-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 11th December 1997\nComing into operation 30th January 1998\nThe Department of the Environment, 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, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by Articles 5(7), 8(1), (4) and (7) of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/755"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1714 (N.I. 19). See Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”; see Articles 5(10) and 8(11) for the definition of “prescribed” in those Articles"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/534/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."
}