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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-better-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nia/2016/13",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Better Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-better-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to Enable provision to be made for protecting and improving the environment; to provide for an integrated environmental permitting system; to provide for a review of powers of entry and associated powers and for the repeal or rewriting of such powers and for safeguards in relation to them; to provide for the repeal or rewriting of offences connected with the exercise of any such powers and for the preparation of a code of practice in connection with such exercise; to amend the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 to provide for a new method for authorising fuels for use in a smoke control area and for exempting fireplaces from the provisions of Article 17 of that Order; to amend the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 to remove the requirement on district councils to make an assessment of air quality under Article 13 of that Order; to amend the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 to transfer certain functions to the Department of the Environment from the Department for Regional Development; and for connected purposes.\n[11th April 2016]\nBE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:",
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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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