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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-parks-and-other-open-spaces-regulations-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1639",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Parks and Other Open Spaces Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-parks-and-other-open-spaces-regulations-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "OPEN SPACES\nMade 20th August 1997\nComing into force 1st October 1997\nWhereas a draft of these Regulations has been laid before Parliament for a period of forty days pursuant to section 6 of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, and that period has expired without either House resolving that the Regulations be not made:\nNow, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(1) of the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926 as extended by section 7(5) of the Crown Estate Act 1961 and now vested in her, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1946 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1926 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1961 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1942 c. 23, S.R. & O. 1945/991; S.I. 1962/1549, 1970/1681, 1992/1311."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1639/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."
}