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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nitrates-action-programme-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "environmental protection\nMade 1st December 2006\nComing into operation 1st January 2007\nThe Department of the Environment and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being departments designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to water resources and Directive 2003/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 providing for public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section and every other power enabling them in that behalf and the Department of the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 32, 44 and 72 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (1.1.2011) by The Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/411), regs. 1, 31(1)(a) (with reg. 29(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/2901"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. L.156. 25/06/2003, P. 0017 - 0025"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19)"
    }
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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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