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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/231",
  "legislation_title": "The Quality of Bathing Water Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 28th May 2008\nComing into operation in accordance with regulation 1\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 measures relating to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301"
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    {
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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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