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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-control-of-major-accident-hazards-regulations-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/981",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Control of Major-Accident Hazards) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-control-of-major-accident-hazards-regulations-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 24th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 31st March 1999\nComing into force 20th April 1999\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, being designated Ministers for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the prevention and limitation of the effects of accidents involving dangerous substances, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section and by sections 5, 7(1), 11(2), 11(7), 17(2), and 40(1) of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1750."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 10; sections 7(1) and 11 were amended by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43), sections 144, 162(2) and Schedule 13, Part I and Schedule 16, Part VII, paragraphs 1, 3 and 4; See section 39(2) and section 336(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8) for the definition of “prescribed”; there are other amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
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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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