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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-animals-environment-and-food-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012/article-26",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/2897",
  "legislation_title": "The Agriculture, Animals, Environment and Food etc. (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-animals-environment-and-food-etc-miscellaneous-amendments-order-2012",
  "path": "article/26",
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  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009",
  "text": "In the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009 , in regulation 12 (enforcement), after paragraph (2) add—\n“(3) The Secretary of State may delegate to the Director of Public Prosecutions functions in relation to the prosecution of an offence under these Regulations.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2009/153, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order."
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  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/2897/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:12:57.013347+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}