{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2002/3153",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Financial assistance by Department",
  "text": "(1) The Department may make grants to any body having among its objects—\n(a) the furtherance of the objectives of the waste management plan in relation to the recovery and disposal of waste prepared by the Department under Article 19 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (NI 19); or\n(b) the prevention or control of environmental pollution.\n(2) Grants under this Article shall be made—\n(a) in accordance with arrangements approved by the Department of Finance and Personnel; and\n(b) subject to such conditions as the Department may determine (including conditions for repayment in specified circumstances).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 7(1)(a) substituted (16.1.2020) by The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/240), regs. 1, 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3153/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:28.857948+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}