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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2024/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2024/37",
  "legislation_title": "The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/misuse-of-drugs-designation-amendment-order-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Dangerous Drugs\nMade 6th March 2024\nComing into operation 27th March 2024\nThe Department of Health, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 7(4) and (5) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as adapted by section 7(9) of that Act and now vested in it and after consultation with the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs in accordance with section 7(7) of that Act.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 38, as amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), Sch 17, para 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N. I.) No. 1973 No. 504, Article 5(a) and S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3(6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/37/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:29:28.981903+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."
}