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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-gender-reassignment-regulations-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-gender-reassignment-regulations-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1102",
  "legislation_title": "The Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sex-discrimination-gender-reassignment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "SEX DISCRIMINATION\nMade 25th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 9th April 1999\nComing into force 1st May 1999\nThe Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, in relation to measures to prevent discrimination on the grounds of sex in fields of pay and treatment in matters of employment, self-employment and vocational training, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2563)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1102/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."
}