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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-circular-economy-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2020/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2020/285",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-circular-economy-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 26th November 2020\nComing into operation 18th December 2020\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs 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, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section and by Articles 4(3) and 77 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (having in particular had regard in exercising its power under Article 4(3) of that Order to the matters specified in Article 4(4) of that Order), hereby makes the following Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department of the Environment which was dissolved by section 1(9) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (c.5 N.I.) and, by virtue of Article 8(1)(c) of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016 (S.R. 2016 No.76), its functions for the purpose of these Regulations were transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2870 and S.I. 2008/301"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19); relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2009 No.178, S.R. 2011 No.127, S.R. 2015 No.14, S.R. 2016 No.95, S.R. 2016 No.380 and S.R. 2019 No.240"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2020/285/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."
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