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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-gas-volume-meters-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/296",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (EEC Requirements) (Gas Volume Meters) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/measuring-instruments-eec-requirements-gas-volume-meters-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "GAS\nMade 22nd February 1988\nLaid before Parliament 23rd February 1988\nComing into force 15th March 1988\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the regulation of specifications, construction, placing on the market and use of equipment intended for weighing, measuring or testing or for purposes ancillary thereto, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and in exercise of his powers under sections 17(8)(c) and 47(3) of the Gas Act 1986, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/427."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1986 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/296/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."
}