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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-3.json",
  "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": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "References to EU instruments",
  "text": "(1) References in these Regulations to EU instruments are to those instruments as they had effect immediately before exit day.\n(2) References to—\n(a) the European Union, or otherwise to the area to which that instrument applies;\n(b) a Member State,\nin any EU instrument referred to in these Regulations includes the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/244), regs. 1, 2(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3 heading substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 8-10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/995/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:23.869241+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."
}