{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/451",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-no-3-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Road Traffic And Vehicles\nMade 13th December 2012\nComing into operation 19th January 2013\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and Articles 5(3), 13(3A) and (3B) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.\nThe Department of the Environment is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the licensing of drivers of motor vehicles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); Article 5 was substituted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) and amended by Schedule 3 to S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10), Schedule 1 to S.R. 1996 No. 426 and Article 7(2) of S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) and Article 13(3A) and (3B) were inserted by Article 7(5) of S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1536"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/451/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."
}