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  "legislation_title": "The Quality of Bathing Water (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 25th May 2012\nComing into operation 1st June 2012\nThe Department of the Environment being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( in relation to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S.I. 2008/301"
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      "text": "1972 c.68"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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