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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/156",
  "legislation_title": "Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES\nMade 4th April 1996\nComing into operation 20th May 1996\nThe Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 31A(1), 31D(1), 31E(1) and 218(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”; Articles 31A, 31D and 31E were inserted by S.I. 1985/755 (N.I. 6), Article 3; Articles 31A, 31D and 31E were amended by S.R. 1993 No. 246, regulations 4, 5 and 6 respectively"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/156/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."
}