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  "legislation": "nisr/2018/137",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Floods Directive) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade 5th July 2018\nComing into operation 27th July 2018\nThe Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs being a Department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the environment makes the following Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/2812 to which there are amendments not relevant to the subject matter of these Regulations and S.I. 2000/3238"
    },
    {
      "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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