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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-23",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/204",
  "legislation_title": "The Air Quality Standards (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/air-quality-standards-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Duty to limit exposure to PM2.5",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that all necessary measures not entailing disproportionate costs are taken in relation to Scotland with a view to attaining the national exposure reduction target by 2020.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers must base assessment of compliance with paragraph (1) on a comparison of the average exposure indicator for 2020 with that for 2010.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers must ensure that all appropriate measures are taken in relation to Scotland with a view to ensuring that the average exposure indicator for 2015 does not exceed 20µg/m3.\n(4) In this regulation—\n(a) “national exposure reduction target” means the target established by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 24 of the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 ; and\n(b) references to an average exposure indicator for a certain year are references to the indicator for that year calculated by the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 23 of those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/1001."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/204/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:55:33.792627+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."
}