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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/336",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection, England And Wales\nMade 9th March 2016\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 2016\nComing into force 1st April 2016\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of that section in relation to the environment.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/336/introduction",
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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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