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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-16-order-1994/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2854",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 16) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-16-order-1994",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provision coming into force on or after 1st December 1994",
  "text": "(1) Section 162(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, insofar as it relates to the repeal of the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906 (“the 1906 Act”) in Part I of Schedule 16, shall come into force, for the purposes of the application of the 1906 Act to activities which fall within a description of a process which has been but has ceased to be a prescribed process—\n(a) on 1st December 1994; or, if later,\n(b) on the date on which that description of process ceases to be a prescribed process.\n(2) In this article “prescribed process” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1906 c. 14."
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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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