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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/499",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Protection Products (Amendment No 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pesticides\nMade 15th December 2008\nComing into operation 12th January 2009\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act, in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, and to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that it is expedient for the reference to Council Directive 91/414/EEC concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, to be construed as a reference to that Directive as amended from time to time.\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/2027"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 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."
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