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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2171",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Compulsory Insurance) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-compulsory-insurance-regulations-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 16th December 1987\nComing into force 31st December 1988\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, being a Minister designated for the purpose of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to compulsory insurance in respect of, and other means of providing for, civil liability in relation to motor vehicles and trailers, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament pursuant to paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2171/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."
}