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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/6",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-driving-licences-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Road Traffic And Vehicles\nMade 15th January 2015\nComing into operation 23rd February 2015\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) and (4), 19C(1), (1A)(a) and (f) and (2) 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) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); Article 19C was substituted by Schedule 1 to S.I. 1991/197 (N.I. 3) and amended by paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10), paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 to S.R. 1996 No. 426, paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to S.R. 1997 No. 241, paragraph 8 of the Schedule to S.R. 2002 No. 374 and Article 34 of S.I. 2007/916 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1536"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/6/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."
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