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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-wales-act-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-22",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2016/3",
  "legislation_title": "Environment (Wales) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-wales-act-2016",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 6 of the Environment Act 1995—\n(a) in subsection (5), omit “and the Natural Resources Body for Wales' flood defence functions shall extend to the territorial sea adjacent to Wales”;\n(b) after subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) The flood defence functions of the Natural Resources Body for Wales extend to the territorial sea adjacent to Wales.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 22 in force at 14.7.2017 by S.I. 2017/714, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2016/3/schedule/2/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:15.783470+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."
}