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  "legislation_title": "Environmental Better Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "heading": "Regulations relating to protecting and improving the environment: objective",
  "text": "The Department must, in making regulations under section 2, have as anobjective reducing the regulatory and administrative burden on persons carrying on regulated activities to the greatest extent possible consistent with protecting and improving the environment.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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