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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-strategy-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2009/178",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management Strategy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 28th April 2009\nComing into operation 1st July 2009\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 caused by waste and in relation to measures relating to the management of packaging and packaging waste.\nThe Department makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/2870 and 1996/266"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68"
    }
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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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