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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/446",
  "legislation_title": "Drainage (Environmental Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-assessment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In regulation 2–\n(a) in paragraph (1), before the definition of “the Department” there shall be inserted–\n““another member State” means a member State other than the United Kingdom;”; and\n(b) after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted–\n“(3A) In these Regulations, any reference to significant effects on the environment includes a reference to such effects on the environment in another member State.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/446/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:51.782573+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."
}