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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/266",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Liability (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "References to EU legislation",
  "text": "For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference in any EU instrument referred to in these Regulations—\n(a) to the “European Union” or otherwise to the area to which that instrument applies is to be taken to include the United Kingdom,\n(b) to a “Member State” is to be taken to include the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Liability etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/276), regs. 1(1)(b), 4(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Regulations substituted (22.4.2011) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1043), arts. 2, 6"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/266/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:00:28.879644+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."
}