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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/schedule-4/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1997/2778",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "An authorised person who, in the exercise of a relevant power, enters on any premises which are unoccupied or whose occupier is temporarily absent shall leave the premises as effectually secured against trespassers as he found them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 2-5 applied (with modifications) (1.1.2025) by The Producer Responsibility Obligations (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1332), regs. 1(2), 113, Sch. 12 para. 2 (with reg. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 paras. 2-5 applied (with modifications) (24.1.2025 for specified purposes) by The Deposit Scheme for Drinks Containers (England and Northern Ireland) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/67), regs. 1(3), 84(6) (with reg. 2(3))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/2778/schedule/4/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:15.100824+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}