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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-better-regulation-act-northern-ireland-2016/section-7",
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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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Repealing, etc. unnecessary or inappropriate powers of entry, etc.",
  "text": "The Department, by regulations, may amend, repeal or revoke any statutoryprovision under which it has any function to the extent necessary to remove from it any of the following that it considers to be unnecessary or inappropriate—\n(a) a power of entry or associated power;\n(b) an offence connected with the exercise of such a power of a kind mentioned in section 9(1)(b).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 in operation at 1.5.2016 by S.R. 2016/212, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2016/13/section/7",
    "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."
}