{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waterways-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waterways-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2019/209",
  "legislation_title": "The Waterways (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waterways-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Canals And Inland Waterways\nMade 29th October 2019\nComing into operation 1st December 2019\nThe Department for Infrastructure, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThe Department for Infrastructure is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to measures relating to the environment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Formerly the Department for Regional Development; see section 1(6) and (11) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (2016 c. 5 (N.I.))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c. 68; section 2(2) is amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (2006 c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (2008 c. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/301"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/209/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:24.963311+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."
}