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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2011/211",
  "legislation_title": "Groundwater (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/groundwater-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "text": "(1) The Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) In regulation 16 (discharges that may be authorised) after sub-paragraph (h) insert—\n“(i) the injection of carbon dioxide streams for storage purposes into geological formations which for natural reasons are permanently unsuitable for other purposes, provided that such injection is made in accordance with Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide or excluded from the scope of that Directive pursuant to its Article 2(2).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2009 No. 254 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 114."
    }
  ],
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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."
}