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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/456",
  "legislation_title": "The Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture\nMade 17th December 2012\nComing into operation- 1st February 2013\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community and in relation to matters relating to the promotion of rural development.\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812 and S.I. 2000/3238 to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
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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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