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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-18-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/3056",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 18) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-18-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 16th December 1996",
  "text": "Section 162(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 shall come into force on 16th December 1996 in so far as it relates to the following repeals in Part I of Schedule 16 to that Act and the repeals extend to England and Wales:\nthe repeal of the whole of the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906 so far as unrepealed;\nthe repeal of section 1(1)(d) and the word “and” preceding it and section 5 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\nthe repeal, in section 79(10) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, of the words following “Part I”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1906 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1974 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/3056/article/2",
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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."
}