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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-transboundary-movements-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/209",
  "legislation_title": "The Genetically Modified Organisms (Transboundary Movements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/genetically-modified-organisms-transboundary-movements-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 12th April 2005\nComing into operation 31st May 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 on it by that section and of every other power 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"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/209/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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