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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-transfer-date-order-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/234",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Agency (Transfer Date) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-agency-transfer-date-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 6th February 1996\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of powers conferred on them by section 56(1) and (3) of the Environment Act 1995, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 25; see the definition of “the transfer date” in section 56(1)."
    }
  ],
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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."
}