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  "legislation": "nisr/2010/92",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 10th March 2010\nComing into operation 12th April 2010\nThe Department of the Environment is a department designated for the purpose of making Regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment.\nThe Department, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
    }
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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."
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