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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/52",
  "legislation_title": "The Measuring Instruments (Use for Trade) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Rule has been made in consequence of a defect in S.R. 2007 Nos. 383 to 390 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Rules.\nWEIGHTS AND MEASURES\nMade 8th February 2008\nComing into operation 17th March 2008\nThe Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 13(1) of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and now vested in it.",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Art. 3(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/231 (N.I. 10) as amended by 2000 c. 5 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "By S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Art. 4"
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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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