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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-discharges-by-the-national-rivers-authority-regulations-1989/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Applications for consents",
  "text": "(1) An application for a consent for the purposes of section 108(1)(a) of this Act for any discharges shall be made to the Secretary of State; and such an application shall be accompanied or supplemented by all such information as the Secretary of State may reasonably require.\n(2) An application made in accordance with this paragraph which relates to proposed discharges at two or more places may be treated by the Secretary of State as separate applications for consents for discharges at each of those places.\n(3) Where an application is made in accordance with this paragraph the Authority shall–\n(a) publish notice of the application, at least once in each of two successive weeks, in a newspaper or newspapers circulating in –\n(i) the locality or localities in which the places are situated at which it is proposed in the application that the discharges should be made; and\n(ii) the locality or localities appearing to the Authority to be in the vicinity of any controlled waters which the Authority considers likely to be affected by the proposed discharges;\n(b) publish a copy of that notice in an edition of the London Gazette published no earlier than the day after the publication of the last of the notices to be published by virtue of paragraph (a) above;\n(c) send a copy of the application to every local authority or water undertaker within whose area any of the proposed discharges is to occur;\n(d) in the case of an application which relates to proposed discharges into coastal waters or relevant territorial waters in or adjacent to England, send a copy of the application to the Minister;\nand the notice published by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) above shall contain the statement “representations or objections with respect to the application may be made in writing to the Secretary of State”.\n(7) If the Authority proposes to make or has made an application under this paragraph (“the relevant application”) and –\n(a) applies to the Secretary of State within the prescribed period for a certificate providing that the provisions of sub-paragraph (3) above and of section 117(1) of this Act shall not apply to –\n(i) the relevant application;\n(ii) any consent given or conditions imposed on the relevant application;\n(iii) any sample of effluent taken from a discharge for which consent is given on the relevant application; or\n(iv) information produced by analysis of such a sample;\nand\n(b) satisfies the Secretary of State that it would be contrary to the public interest or would prejudice, to an unreasonable degree, some private interest, by disclosing information about a trade secret, if a certificate were not issued under this paragraph,\nthe Secretary of State may issue a certificate to the Authority providing that those provisions shall not apply to such of the things mentioned in paragraph (a) above as are specified in the certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1157/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:05.121181+00:00"
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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."
}