{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-materials-facilities-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-materials-facilities-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2025/18",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (Materials Facilities) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-materials-facilities-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 6th February 2025\nComing into operation 1st April 2025\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 6(6) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and Article 4(1) and (3) of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 and now vested in it.\nIn accordance with Article 4(4) of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has consulted—\n(a) district councils and such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of district councils as it considers appropriate;\n(b) such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of industry, agriculture and business as it considers appropriate; and\n(c) such other bodies or persons as it considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3153."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The Department of the Environment was dissolved by Section 1(9) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 and, by virtue of Article 8(1)(c) of the Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016, its functions for the purposes of these Regulations were transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/18/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:54.462226+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."
}