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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-northern-ireland-protocol-regulations-2021/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-northern-ireland-protocol-regulations-2021/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/905",
  "legislation_title": "The Medical Devices (Northern Ireland Protocol) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/medical-devices-northern-ireland-protocol-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Language requirements",
  "text": "Where Regulation (EU) 2017/745 or Regulation (EU) 2017/746 provide for the UK in respect of Northern Ireland to determine the language requirements for information and documentation, such information and documentation must be written in English.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20 substituted (21.3.2024) by The Medical Devices (In Vitro Diagnostic Devices etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/221), regs. 1(2), 40"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 in force at 27.7.2021, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/905/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:10:11.075057+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}