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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-prescribed-devices-order-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Offenders (Prescribed Devices) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-prescribed-devices-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES\nMade 12th June 1997\nComing into operation 1st August 1997\nThe Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 23(9) of the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10); see Article 2(3) of S.I. 1996/1320 (N.I. 10) and Article 2(2) of S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18) for the definition of “the Department”"
    }
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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."
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