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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/524",
  "legislation_title": "The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/privacy-and-electronic-communications-ec-directive-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Electronic Communications\nMade 21st April 2016\nLaid before Parliament 25th April 2016\nComing into force 16th May 2016\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. This has been amended, but the amendments are not relevant for the purposes of 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": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/524/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."
}