{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-protection-overseas-territories-order-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-protection-overseas-territories-order-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1084",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Protection (Overseas Territories) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-protection-overseas-territories-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order extends, to the territories specified in Schedule 2 thereto, the provisions of Parts II and IV of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, and related Schedules, subject to exceptions, adaptations and modifications.\nThe purposes of the Act were, so far as material, to replace the Dumping at Sea Act 1974 (c. 20) with fresh provision for controlling the deposit of substances and articles in the sea, to make provision for the control of the deposit of substances and articles under the sea-bed, and for connected purposes.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1084/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:04:50.264876+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."
}