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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1997/489",
  "legislation_title": "The Surface Waters (Shellfish) (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/surface-waters-shellfish-classification-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES\nWATER AND SEWERAGE\nMade 12th November 1997\nComing into operation 5th January 1998\nThe Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 4B of the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 and now vested in it, section 56B of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 and, being a department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution of water, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 5 (N.I.) as amended by the Water and Sewerage Services (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/3165 (N.I. 16) Art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Art. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/70 (N.I.2) as amended by the Water and Sewerage Services (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/3165 (N.I. 16) Art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2393"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/489/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:26:19.805844+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}