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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-8-order-1991/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-8-order-1991/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1319",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 8) Order 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-8-order-1991",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 31st May 1991",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 shall come into force on 31st May 1991—\nsections 29 to 32;\nsection 50;\nsection 51;\nsection 60 in so far as it relates to anything deposited at a place for the deposit of waste, or in a receptacle for waste, provided by a waste disposal contractor under arrangements made with a waste disposal authority;\nsection 68;\nsection 71;\nsection 72;\nsection 75;\nsection 77;\nsection 147;\nsection 162(1) in so far as it relates to paragraph 31(1) to (3), (4)(a) and (c) and (5)(b) and (c) of Schedule 15;\nsection 162(2) in so far as it relates to the repeal in Part II of Schedule 16 of section 2 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and the repeals made in that Part in relation to sections 7(2) and 9(1) of the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1319/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:20.390801+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."
}