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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2017/565",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-agriculture-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Agriculture, Wales\nMade 20 April 2017\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 24 April 2017\nComing into force 16 May 2017\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to—\n(a)\n(b)\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for any reference in these Regulations to EU instruments to be construed as a reference to those instruments as amended from time to time.\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations: power to amend or revoke conferred (26.12.2023) by Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 (c. 55), ss. 164(3), 255(5), Sch. 14 Pt. 3 (with s. 247)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2017/565/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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