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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-applications-appeals-and-registers-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2971",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Pollution (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-applications-appeals-and-registers-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "–\n(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Control of Pollution (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 31st December 1996.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“discharge consent” has the same meaning as in section 91(8) of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n“register” means a register maintained by the Agency under section 190 of that Act (pollution control registers).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Amended by paragraph 143(4) of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "mod.",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1649",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Pollution (Channel Tunnel Rail Link) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/675",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2013/755",
      "affecting_title": "The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2971/regulation/1",
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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."
}