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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-12-order-1992/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-12-order-1992/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3253",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 12) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-12-order-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 1st February 1993",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 shall come into force on 1st February 1993—\nsection 106(1) to (3), (6) and (7),\nsection 107(1) to (7) and (9) to (11),\nsection 108(1)(a) (in so far as it relates to the import or acquisition of genetically modified organisms),\nsection 110 (in so far as it relates to the import, acquisition, release or marketing of genetically modified organisms),\nsection 111(6), (6A) and (8) to (10),\nsection 112(1), (2) and (5) to (7),\nsection 114(4) and (5),\nsection 115(1) to (3) and (5) to (10),\nsection 116 (in so far as it relates to the import, acquisition, release or marketing of genetically modified organisms),\nsection 117,\nsection 118(1)(a), (c), (e) to (l), (m) (in so far as it relates to section 111), (n) and (o) and (2) to (10),\nsections 119 to 121,\nsection 122(1)(c) to (h) (in so far as those paragraphs are not already in force), (2) and (3),\nsection 123(1) to (6) and (8), and\nsection 127.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "section 111(6A) is inserted by regulation 13 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/ )."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "section 112(5)(b) is amended by regulation 9 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/ )."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3253/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:12.281673+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."
}