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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996/schedule/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/973",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Act 1995 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The Control of Pollution (Consents for Discharges) (Secretary of State Functions) Regulations 1984",
  "text": "(1) The Control of Pollution (Consents for Discharges) (Secretary of State Functions) Regulations 1984 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 2 (application and interpretation)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for the words “a river purification authority in Scotland” there shall be substituted the words “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”; and\n(b) in paragraph (2), in the definition of “authority”, for the words “river purification authority” there shall be substituted the words “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”.\n(3) In footnote (a) to the Schedule, for the words “River Purification Authority— see section 106(2) of the Act” there shall be substituted “the Scottish Environment Protection Agency”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/865."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1996/18",
      "affecting_title": "Employment Rights Act 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/973/schedule/paragraph/8",
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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."
}