{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sludge-use-in-agriculture-amendment-regulations-1990/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sludge-use-in-agriculture-amendment-regulations-1990/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/880",
  "legislation_title": "The Sludge (Use in Agriculture) (Amendment) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sludge-use-in-agriculture-amendment-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND AND WALES\nPUBLIC HEALTH, SCOTLAND\nMade 5th April 1990\nLaid before Parliament 17th April 1990\nComing into force 8th May 1990\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and being the Ministers designated for the purposes of that subsection in relation to the regulation and control of the use of sludge in agriculture, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/880/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."
}