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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-amendment-no-2-regulations-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-amendment-no-2-regulations-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/1732",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-designation-of-approval-marks-amendment-no-2-regulations-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "MERCHANDISE MARKS\nMade 2nd December 1981\nLaid before Parliament 14th December 1981\nComing into Operation 4th January 1982\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 63(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 and now vested in him, and of all other enabling powers, and after counsultation with representative organisations in accordance with the provisions of section 199(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 63(1) was amended by the Designation of Approval Marks (European Communities) Regulations 1973 (S.I. 1973/1193)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/571 and 1981/238"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1732/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."
}