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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/schedule-A1/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1657",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/A1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A reference in the Directive to “Member States”—\n(a) in Article 4, is to be read as a reference to the Ministers and the Department;\n(b) except in Article 8(6), is otherwise to be read as a reference to the appropriate United Kingdom competent authority.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. A1 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides and Fertilisers (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/306), reg. 1(4), Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 5(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(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."
}