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  "legislation_title": "Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "European Communities\nEnvironmental Protection\nMade 6th November 2009\nComing into operation 14th December 2009\nThe Department of the Environment, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, acting in relation to measures relating to the environment in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations:",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S.I. 2008/ 301"
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      "text": "1972 c.68"
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