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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-amendment-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/660",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-environmental-impact-assessment-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Town And Country Planning, England\nMade 11th March 2015\nLaid before Parliament 12th March 2015\nComing into force 6th April 2015\nThe Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the environment.\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and section 71A(1) and (2) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 2011/92/EU as adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on 13th December 2011, makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c.8. Section 71A was inserted into the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 by section 15 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c.34), and was amended by S.I. 2011/1043."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 26, 28.1.2012, p.1."
    }
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  "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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