{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/30",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "The Office for Environmental Protection: Northern Ireland",
  "text": "Schedule 3—\n(a) makes provision about the functions of the OEP in, or as regards, Northern Ireland, and\n(b) amends this Act to reflect those functions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 147(6)(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 49 in force at 28.2.2022 by S.R. 2022/54, art. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:04.548359+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}