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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1579",
  "legislation_title": "The Non-automatic Weighing Instruments (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/non-automatic-weighing-instruments-eec-requirements-regulations-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES\nMade 30th June 1992\nLaid before Parliament 3rd July 1992\nComing into force 1st January 1993\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the regulation of specifications, construction, placing on the market and use of equipment intended for weighing, measuring or testing or for purposes ancillary thereto, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by that section, of the powers conferred on him by sections 15(1), 86(1) and 94(1) of the Weights and Measures Act 1985 and of all his other enabling powers, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/427."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1985 c. 72: section 94(1) contains a definition of “prescribed”."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1579/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."
}