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  "legislation_title": "Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "European Communities\nEnvironmental Protection\nMade 3rd June 2011\nComing into operation 25th June 2011\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 the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/ 301."
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      "text": "1972 c.68."
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