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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-prenotification-regulations-1990/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/501",
  "legislation_title": "The Merger (Prenotification) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-prenotification-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS\nMade 7th March 1990\nLaid before Parliament 9th March 1990\nComing into force 1st April 1990\nThe Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 75A(1), 75C(1)(c), 75D(1), (2)(b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h), (3) and (4) and 75E of the Fair Trading Act 1973 hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See the definition of “regulations”."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 41; sections 75A to 75E of that Act were inserted by section 146 of the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40)."
    }
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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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