{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-amendment-regulations-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1935",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Batteries and Accumulators (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-amendment-regulations-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 18th November 2015\nLaid before Parliament 26th November 2015\nComing into force 1st January 2016\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of the Act in relation to batteries and accumulators.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/3471."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1935/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."
}