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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/461",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 21st October 2005\nComing into operation 21st October 2005\nThe Department of the Environment, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the regulation and control of the transit, import and export of waste (including recyclable materials), the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 30, 48 and 77 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1993/2661, S.I. 1992/2870 and S.I 1988/785"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19), See Article 2(2) for definition of “Department” and “regulations”"
    }
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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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