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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-assessment-of-environmental-effects-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/369",
  "legislation_title": "The Highways (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-assessment-of-environmental-effects-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 17th February 1999\nLaid before Parliament 18th February 1999\nComing into force 13th March 1999\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England and the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales, being Ministers designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to 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 upon them by that section and having taken into account the selection criteria specified in Annex III to Council Directive 85/337/EEC (on the assessment of the effects of certain public projects on the environment), as inserted by Council Directive 97/11/EC (amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC) hereby make the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785. See also the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2971)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L175, 5.7.1985, p.40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L73, 14.3.1997, p.5."
    }
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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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