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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/973",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981",
  "text": "In section 36(7) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (interpretation of that section), in the definition of “relevant authority” for the words “a river purification board” there shall be substituted “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 69."
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  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/18",
      "affecting_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996"
    }
  ],
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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."
}