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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/532",
  "legislation_title": "The Statistics of Trade (Customs and Excise) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-customs-and-excise-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Statistics Of Trade\nMade 27th February 2012\nLaid before Parliament 28th February 2012\nComing into force 1st April 2012\nThe Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Commissioners have been designated for the purpose of section 2(2) in relation to the receipt, regulation and control of statistics relating to the trading of goods between the United Kingdom and other Member States.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The functions of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5 of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11). Section 50(1) of that Act provides that a reference to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise shall be taken as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) has been amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/707."
    }
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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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