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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/240",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations are made in exercise of the powers in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in order to ensure that the requirements of the revised Waste Framework Directive have been met.\nPart 2 makes amendments to primary legislation in order to ensure that the requirements of the revised Waste Framework Directive have been met.\nPart 3 makes amendments to subordinate legislation in order to ensure that the requirements of the revised Waste Framework Directive have been met.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. 1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3(3) or, and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7) and is prospectively repealed by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16), section 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 312 22.11.2008"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/240/note",
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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."
}