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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-bodies-abolition-of-environment-protection-advisory-committees-order-2012/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111524671",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Bodies (Abolition of Environment Protection Advisory Committees) Order 2012",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Abolition of Environment Protection Advisory Committees",
  "text": "(1) The Environment Protection Advisory Committees established under section 12 of the Environment Act 1995 are abolished, except the one established pursuant to subsection (6) of that section (“the Welsh Environment Protection Advisory Committee”).\n(2) The duties of the Environment Agency under subsection (1) of that section cease to have effect, except in relation to the Welsh Environment Protection Advisory Committee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In relation to Wales, the functions of the “Ministers” were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by S.I. 1999/672 and were then further transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1995 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2012/9780111524671/article/2",
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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."
}