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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-better-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-1",
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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",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "General purpose: protecting and improving the environment",
  "text": "(1) The purpose of this Part is to enable provision to be made for or in connection with protecting and improving the environment, including (but not limited to) the following—\n(a) regulating environmental activities;\n(b) implementing assimilated obligations relating to protecting and improving the environment;\n(c) implementing international obligations of the United Kingdom relating to protecting and improving the environment.\n(2) In subsection (1) “international obligations” has the same meaning as in the Northern Ireland Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/584), regs. 1, 27; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 1(1)(b) substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1424), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 86(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/13/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:58.583469+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."
}