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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/24",
  "legislation_title": "Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for implementing Council Directive 96/61/EC and for otherwise preventing and controlling pollution; to make provision about certain expired or expiring disposal or waste management licences; and for connected purposes.\n[27th July 1999]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
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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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