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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-1997-order-commencement-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1998/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/390",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Contaminated Land (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998",
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  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed Day",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 shall come into operation on 1st December 1998–\nArticles 2(2) (in so far as it relates to the definitions of “environment”, “harm”, “harmless”, “pollution of the environment”, “prescribed”, “substance”, “recover”, “waste” and “the Waste Directive”), and (6),\nArticle 19,\nArticle 32,\nArticle 33,\nSchedule 1,\nSchedule 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/390/article/2",
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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."
}