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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoos-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/115",
  "legislation_title": "The Zoos Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/zoos-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATURE CONSERVATION\nMade 3rd March 2003\nComing into operation 31st March 2003\nThe Department of the Environment, being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the keeping of wild animals in zoos, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/3495"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/115/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."
}