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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-22",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/30",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "The Office for Environmental Protection",
  "text": "(1) A body corporate called the Office for Environmental Protection is established.\n(2) In this Act that body is referred to as “the OEP”.\n(3) Schedule 1 makes further provision about the OEP.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 22 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(3)"
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    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 22 in force at 17.11.2021 by S.I. 2021/1274, reg. 2(a)"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/section/22",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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