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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/271",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Traceability and Labelling) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-traceability-and-labelling-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 24th May 2005\nComing into operation 30th June 2005\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 upon it by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Regulations applied (with modifications) (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1056), regs. 1(2), 9, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/755"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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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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