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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/18",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Microbeads) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-microbeads-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Enforcement",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall, for the purpose of Article 72(1) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, determine whether an offence under regulation 3(1) or (2) has been committed and may authorise in writing a person to exercise any of the powers in Article 72(2) for that purpose.\n(2) An authorised person or any district council may, for the purposes of these Regulations, by notice in writing served on any person require that person to furnish such information specified in the notice as the authorised person or, as the case may be, the council reasonably considers is needed, in such form and within such period following service of the notice, or at such times, as is so specified.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/18/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:47.094688+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."
}