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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-pollution-control-northern-ireland-order-1997/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1997/2777",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Department may give the enforcing authority a direction with respect to any particular application or any class of applications for an authorisation requiring the authority not to determine or not to proceed with the application or applications of that class until the expiry of any such period as may be specified in the direction, or until directed by the Department that the enforcing authority may do so, as the case may be.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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