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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2009/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES\nMade 11 April 2009\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 15 April 2009\nComing into force 6 May 2009\nThe Welsh Ministers being designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 make these Regulations under the powers conferred by that section as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act.\nThe Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the Community instruments referred to in these Regulations to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "The relevant designations are conferred by S.I. 2002/248, as amended by S.I. 2006/3329 (measures relating to the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora); S.I. 2003/2901, as amended by S.I 2006/3329 (measures relating to water resources and measures relating to the control and regulation of the deliberate release, placing on the market and transboundary movements of genetically modified organisms); S.I. 2005/850, as amended by S.I 2006/3329 (measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the management of packaging and packaging waste and measures relating to the prevention and limitation of the effects of accidents involving dangerous substances in so far as they relate to land-use planning policies and consents); and S.I. 2007/193 (measures relating to the prevention and remedying of land contamination)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Paragraph 1A was inserted into Schedule 2 by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/995/introduction",
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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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