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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/721",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection, Wales\nWaste, Wales\nMade 11 June 2018\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 14 June 2018\nComing into force 5 July 2018\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to—\n(a) measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the management of packaging and packaging waste;\n(b) the prevention, reduction and management of waste.\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of section 59(2) of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), the Welsh Ministers may exercise the power conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) in relation to any matter, or for any purpose, if they have been designated in relation to that matter or for that purpose."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/850."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/1552."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/721/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:49.749005+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."
}