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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/810",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-england-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "References to EU instruments",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference in any EU instrument referred to in these Regulations—\n(a) to the “European Union” or otherwise to the area to which that instrument applies is to be taken to include the United Kingdom;\n(b) to a “Member State” is to be taken to include the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/458), regs. 1(1), 7(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/810/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:41:16.691519+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."
}