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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/177",
  "legislation_title": "Weights and Measures (Guernsey and Alderney) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "WEIGHTS AND MEASURES\nMade 30th April 1996\nComing into operation 1st June 1996\nThe Department of Economic Development, being satisfied that it is proper, having regard to the law for the time being in force in Guernsey and Alderney to provide by order as set out in Article 2 and to designate Guernsey and Alderney for the purposes of the provisions of the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 mentioned in Article 3 in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 2(2) and 9(1) and (13) of that Order and now vested in it 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. 1981/231 (N.I. 10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See the definition of “designated country”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "By S.I. 1982/846 (N.I. 11) Art. 4"
    }
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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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