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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-eec-manufacturers-regulations-1981/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-eec-manufacturers-regulations-1981/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1981/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) (EEC Manufacturers) Regulations 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-type-approval-eec-manufacturers-regulations-1981",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC\nMade 27th March 1981\nLaid before Parliament 6th April 1981\nComing into Operation 27th April 1981\nThe Secretary of State for Transport, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to regulation of the type, description, construction and equipment of vehicles, and of components of vehicles, and in particular any vehicle type approval scheme, in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2(2) and now vested in him and of all other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1972/1811."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/238."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/493/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."
}