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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2012/12",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pesticides\nMade 16th January 2012\nComing into operation- 29th February 2012\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union, and measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), makes the following Regulations:-",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1999 No.2027"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2012/12/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."
}