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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-assessment-and-unauthorised-development-regulations-1995/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2258",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Assessment and Unauthorised Development) Regulations 1995",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 29th August 1995\nLaid before Parliament 8th September 1995\nComing into force 2nd October 1995\nThe Secretary of State of the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of the 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 measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by that section, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/785."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68."
    }
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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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