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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2011/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/1208",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2011",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electronic Communications\nMade 4th May 2011\nLaid before Parliament 5th May 2011\nComing into force 26th May 2011\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in respect of matters relating to electronic communications, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3495: which has been amended, but those amendments are not relevant to these regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/1208/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."
}