{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-commencement-no-18-england-and-wales-order-2000/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3033",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Act 1995 (Commencement No. 18) (England and Wales) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-commencement-no-18-england-and-wales-order-2000",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provision coming into force on 1st December 2000",
  "text": "Section 116 of the Environment Act 1995 shall come into force on 1st December 2000 in so far as it relates to paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 21.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "This paragraph substitutes section 221 of the Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56). Section 221 of that Act extends to England and Wales only (see section 222(3) of that Act), and accordingly so does paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 21 to the Environment Act 1995 (see section 125(10) of that Act)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3033/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:10:45.701951+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."
}