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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-amendment-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2018/note",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2018/215",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality (Amendment, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-amendment-etc-regulations-northern-ireland-2018",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 2 makes technical updating amendments to the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 by substituting new references for the repealed Council Directive 96/61/EC.\nRegulation 3 makes amendments to The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000, by inserting an updated reference to Directive 2008/98/EC.\nRegulation 4 implements those articles of the European Union Directive on Cleaner Air for Europe (Directive 2008/50/EC, O.J. No. L152, 11.6.2008, p.1), which set out differing treatment and actions relating to exceedances when these are due to natural factors (see Article 20), or to winter-sanding or salting of roads (see Article 21).\nFurther information on these Regulations is available from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Klondyke Building, 1 Cromac Avenue, Gasworks Business Park, Belfast, BT7 2JA.",
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  "version": "current",
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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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