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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/optical-charges-and-payments-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/86",
  "legislation_title": "Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
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  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Optical Charges and Payments (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1998.\n(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Optical Charges and Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 191 as amended by S.R. 1997 No. 458"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/86/regulation/1",
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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."
}