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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2012/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1889",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-england-and-wales-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2011/988 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.\nEnvironmental Protection, England And Wales\nMade 17th July 2012\nLaid before Parliament 19th July 2012\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 19th July 2012\nComing into force 1st October 2012\nThe Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment. The Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of that Act in relation to the prevention, reduction and management of waste.\nThe Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "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 section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/1552."
    }
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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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