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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1640",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-essential-requirements-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 1st September 2015\nLaid before Parliament 4th September 2015\nComing into force 1st October 2015\nThe Secretary of State is a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the management of packaging and packaging waste.\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/266."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51), section 27(1), and the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7), Schedule, Part 1."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1640/introduction",
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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."
}