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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/252",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 29th June 2009\nComing into operation 24th July 2009\nThe Department of the Environment, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the environment, acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section, makes the following Regulations:\nThese 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 Department of the Environment 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": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Rules modified (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/289, reg. 5, Sch. 3 (as amended by The Waste (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/284), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(5))"
    },
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
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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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