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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/272",
  "legislation_title": "The Organic Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/organic-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture\nMade 19th November 2020\nComing into operation 31st December 2020\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, in relation to the common agriculture policy of the European Union.\nThe Department makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 and section 56(1) and (2) of the Finance Act 1973.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Department that it is expedient for references in these Regulations to an EU instrument or to any provision of an EU instrument to be construed as a reference to that instrument or that provision as amended from time to time.\nIn accordance with section 56(5) of the Finance Act 1973, the Department of Finance consent to the making of these Regulations.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rules applied (with modifications) (1.10.2023) by The Windsor Framework (Enforcement etc.) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1056), regs. 1(2), 9, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812"
    },
    {
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
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  "provenance": {
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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."
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