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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/482",
  "legislation_title": "Water Abstraction and Impoundment (Licensing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
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  "path": "regulation/23",
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  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Enforcement by High Court",
  "text": "If the Department is of the opinion that proceedings for an offence under regulation 25(1)(b) would afford an ineffectual remedy against a person who has failed to comply with the requirement of any notice under regulation 20(2), it may take proceedings in the High Court for the purpose of securing compliance with that notice.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 23 in operation at 1.2.2007, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/482/regulation/23",
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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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