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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-discharges-by-the-national-rivers-authority-regulations-1989/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1157",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Pollution (Discharges by the National Rivers Authority) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-discharges-by-the-national-rivers-authority-regulations-1989",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for consents required by the National Rivers Authority for the purposes of section 108(1)(a) of the Water Act 1989 (authority for discharges and other defences for the purposes of section 107) in respect of the discharge of any effluent or other matter to be given by the Secretary of State. They also prescribe the modifications subject to which the provisions of Schedule 12 to that Act (consents to certain discharges) are to have effect in relation to discharges by the Authority. Schedule 2 to the Regulations reproduces Schedule 12 with those modifications.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1157/note",
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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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