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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2001/394",
  "legislation_title": "Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "DRAINAGE\nMade 29th October 2001\nComing into operation 26th November 2001\nThe Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, 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 on it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "c. 68. Section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.R. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/394/introduction",
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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."
}