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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1127",
  "legislation_title": "The Tobacco and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tobacco-and-related-products-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Consumer Protection\nMade 21st November 2016\nLaid before Parliament 25th November 2016\nComing into force 1st January 2017\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to tobacco, tobacco products, nicotine, nicotine products and herbal products for smoking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by section 3(3) of and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/2705."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1127/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."
}