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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2017/86",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Forestry\nMade 15th May 2017\nComing into operation 16th May 2017\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Ministry of Agriculture became known as the Department of Agriculture by virtue of section 7(5) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act (c.36), was renamed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by Article 3(4) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1) and was renamed the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs by section 1 of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.62. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/86/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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