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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2008/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2008/18",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-northern-ireland-2008",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental protection\nMade 17th January 2008\nComing into operation- 13th February 2008\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 4(3) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and, by Article 4(3) of the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.\nThe Department of the Environment has had regard in exercising its powers under Article 4(3) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 to the matters referred to in Article 4(4) of that Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I.1997/.2778 (N.I.19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I.1981/.158 (N.I.4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2008/18/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:38:12.162055+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."
}