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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-improvement-works-assessment-of-environmental-effects-regulations-1988/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-improvement-works-assessment-of-environmental-effects-regulations-1988/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1217",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Drainage Improvement Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-drainage-improvement-works-assessment-of-environmental-effects-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LAND DRAINAGE\nMade 13th July 1988\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(1) 16th July 1988\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, 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 the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations of which a draft has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1217/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:03:35.683660+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."
}