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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Hydrocarbons Licensing Directive Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Extent of area granted by licence",
  "text": "The Department shall ensure that the extent of each area granted by a licence is determined in such a way that it does not exceed the area justified by the best possible exercise of the activities authorised by the licence from the technical and economic points of view.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 28.5.2010, see reg. 1(1)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/170/regulation/8",
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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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