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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/295",
  "legislation_title": "Plant Protection Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Pesticides\nMade 19th August 2011\nComing into operation 4th October 2011\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, is 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.\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that it is expedient for references in these Regulations to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC to be construed as including references to Articles 30(3) and 52(4), and to Annexes I to V of that Regulation as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2000 No.2812"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1999 No. 2027"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No. L309, 24.11.2009, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ No. L33, 8.2 1979, p.36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "OJ No. L230, 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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