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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111137932",
  "legislation_title": "The Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing (Protected Areas) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-onshore-hydraulic-fracturing-protected-areas-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under section 4B(5) of the Petroleum Act 1998, for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nPetroleum\nMade 2015\nComing into force 2015\nThe Secretary of State has before making these Regulations consulted the Environment Agency and the Natural Resources Body for Wales in accordance with section 4B(7) of the Petroleum Act 1998.\nIn accordance with section 4B(5) of that Act, a draft of these Regulations was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.\nAccordingly, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 4B(4) of that Act, and section 28(2)(a) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.17; relevant amendments are made by section 50 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c.7), which inserts new sections 4A (onshore hydraulic fracturing: safeguards) and 4B (section 4A: supplementary provision)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2015 c.26."
    }
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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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