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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/280",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION\nMade 26th June 2006\nComing into operation 31st July 2006\nThe Department of the Environment has 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 of water, the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the regulation and control of the transit, import and export of waste (including recyclable materials).\nThe Department makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section and by Articles 2(3), 4(3), 38(3)(a) and 77 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/2393, S.I. 1992/2870 and S.I. 1993/2661"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/280/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."
}