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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/572",
  "legislation_title": "The Infrastructure Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Infrastructure Planning\nMade 18th April 2017\nLaid before Parliament 19th April 2017\nComing into force 16th May 2017\nThe Secretary of State, having been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 2011/92/EU , makes the following Regulations:",
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      "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 Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
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