{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-prescribed-area-regulations-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-prescribed-area-regulations-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2114",
  "legislation_title": "The Northern Ireland (Prescribed Area) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-prescribed-area-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations delineate the area in Northern Ireland adjoining the land boundary and referred to in the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 as the “prescribed area”. Within this area the Act provides control powers to assist in counteracting import and export smuggling.\nThe effect is to reduce the prescribed area to a strip of 20 miles from the land boundary from the previous limit of 40 miles.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2114/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:15:41.353322+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}