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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/drainage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Drainage\nMade 16th May 2017\nComing into operation 16th May 2017\nThe Department for Infrastructure , 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), hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and Schedule 1 of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988 No.785"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1972 c.28"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/88/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:52:34.717414+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."
}