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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/241",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 10th October 2013\nComing into operation 30th November 2013\nThe Department of the Environment having been 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 caused by waste and in relation to the environment.\nThe Department of the Environment acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section and by Articles 3(3)(a), 4(3), 5(7), 38(3), 40(3), 48 and 77 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2870 and S.I. 2008/301"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I.19)"
    }
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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."
}