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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999-commencement-no-2-scotland-order-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/322",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (Commencement No. 2) (Scotland) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999-commencement-no-2-scotland-order-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order brings into force, on 29th September 2000, section 6(1) of and paragraphs 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17 and 18 of Schedule 2 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 in so far as they extend to Scotland.\nSection 6(1) introduces Schedule 2 to the 1999 Act, which contains a list of consequential and minor amendments. The consequential amendments commenced by this Order are consequential on section 2 of the 1999 Act (regulation of polluting activities).\nThere is one minor amendment commenced by this Order (at paragraph 5 of Schedule 2) which is an amendment to section 77(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (waste disposal licences– transition from Part I of the Control of Pollution Act 1974).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/322/note",
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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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