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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/446",
  "legislation_title": "Drainage (Environmental Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "DRAINAGE\nMade 17th December 1998\nComing into operation 29th January 1999\nThe Department of Agriculture, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785"
    },
    {
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
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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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