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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-1997-order-commencement-no-8-order-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2008/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Contaminated Land (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 8) Order (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-1997-order-commencement-no-8-order-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 20th March 2008\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 1(2) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of paragraph 11(2) of Schedule 12 to the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [1998 C.47] and paragraph 4(1)(b) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 [2000 C.1] the power conferred by Article 1(2) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 on the Head of the Department is now exercisable by the Department."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/138/introduction",
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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."
}