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  "legislation": "uksi/1983/1182",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Pollution (Exemption of Certain Discharges from Control) Order 1983",
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  "text": "(1)\n(2)\nDischarges to which section 32(1) does not apply\nDischarges excepted from the exemption granted by the order\n1. Discharges begun on or before 30th April 1974 of any trade or sewage effluent to controlled waters or to any underground stream.\n1. (a) Discharges containing mercury from premises used for the purposes of—\n(i) the manufacture of chemicals, where mercury is used as a catalyst;\n(ii) the manufacture of catalysts containing mercury;\n(iii) the manufacture of organic or inorganic mercury compounds (except catalysts);\n(iv) the manufacture of mercury batteries;\n(v) the extraction, recovery or refining of mercury or any other nonferrous metal;\n(vi) the treatment of industrial waste;\n(vii) a laboratory, where mercury and its compounds are used;\n(b) discharges containing cadmium from premises used for the purposes of—\n(i) zinc mining, lead and zinc refining, the manufacture of cadmium metal or the extraction, recovery or refining of cadmium or any other non-ferrous metal;\n(ii) the manufacture of cadmium compounds;\n(iii) the manufacture of pigments containing cadmium or cadmium compounds;\n(iv) the manufacture of stabilisers containing cadmium or cadmium compounds;\n(v) the manufacture of primary or secondary batteries;\n(vi) electroplating;\n(vii) the manufacture of phosphoric acid or phosphate fertiliser from phosphate rock;\n(c) discharges from premises in which dieldrin is used for the mothproofing of woollen materials;\n(d) discharges (other than of a kind specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) above) containing free or combined mercury, free or combined cadmium, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, lead, copper, nickel, chromium, zinc or arsenic in such quantities as are liable to give rise to pollution within the meaning of Article 1.2(e) of Council Directive No. 76/464/EEC on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community;\n(e) discharges (other than of a kind specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) above) which are liable to affect the quality of waters identified for the purposes of Council Directive No. 76/160/EEC concerning the quality of bathing water, or designated for the purposes of Council Directive No. 79/923/EEC on the quality required of shellfish waters, in such a manner as to result in non-compliance with one (or both) of those Directives;\n(f) discharges containing waste produced in the course of the manufacture of titanium dioxide;\n(g) discharges for which consent is required under any byelaw made in pursuance of section 5(1)(c) of the Sea Fisheries Regulation Act 1966;\n(h) discharges of trade and sewage effluent to the estuary of the river Mersey east of a line drawn across Liverpool Bay between the points identified by the undermentioned groups of two letters and eight figures representing the map co-ordinates of those points on the grid of the National Reference System used by the Ordnance Survey on its maps and plans, that is to say, SJ20368867 and SD26950595.\n2. Discharges begun on or before 30th April 1974 of any trade or sewage effluent from land in Great Britain through a pipe into the sea outside controlled waters.\n2. Discharges of the kinds specified in paragraph 1 of this column.\n3. Discharges begun on or before 30th April 1974 of any trade or sewage effluent from a building or from plant on to or into any lake, loch or pond which does not discharge into a stream.\n3. (a) Discharges of the kinds specified in paragraph 1(a) to (d) of this column;\n(b) discharges which are liable to affect the quality of waters designated for the purposes of Council Directive No. 78/659/EEC on the quality of fresh waters needing protection or improvement in order to support fish life, or which are subject to the provisions of Council Directive No. 75/440/EEC concerning the quality required of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking water in the Member States, in such a manner as to result in non-compliance with one (or both) of those Directives.\n4. Discharges begun on or before 30th April 1974 of any matter other than trade or sewage effluent into any stream or controlled waters from a sewer or drain as respectively defined by section 343 of the Public Health Act 1936 or, in Scotland, by section 59(1) of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968.\n4. Discharges of the kinds specified in paragraphs 1(d) and (e) and 3(b) of this column.\n5. Discharges begun on or before 30th April 1974 of any trade or sewage effluent direct to specified underground water (other than an underground stream).\n5. (a) Discharges which are liable to result in any substance mentioned in List I of the Annex to Council Directive No. 80/68/EEC (on the protection of ground water against pollution caused by certain dangerous substances) reaching specified underground water in a quantity or concentration likely to give rise to deterioration in the quality of such water;\n(b) discharges which are liable to result in any substance mentioned in List II of the said Annex reaching specified underground water in such quantities as to give rise to pollution within the meaning of Article 1.2(d) of the said Council Directive No. 80/68/EEC.\n6. Discharges begun on or before 30th April 1974 of any trade or sewage effluent from a building or from plant on to or into any land.\n6. Discharges of the kinds specified in paragraph 5 of this column.\n7. Discharges (other than discharges which are the subject of an order under the proviso to section 2(4) of the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1951) of water raised or drained from any underground part of a mine into a stream in the same condition in which it is raised or drained from underground, where such discharges were begun on or before 30th April 1974.\n7. (a) Discharges containing free or combined mercury, free or combined cadmium, lead, copper, nickel, chromium, zinc or arsenic in such quantities as are liable to give rise to pollution within the meaning of Article 1.2(e) of Council Directive No. 76/464/EEC on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community;\n(b) discharges of the kinds specified in paragraph 3(b) of this column.\n8. Discharges begun after 30th April 1974 but before the day on which section 34 of the Act comes into force which are of a kind exempted under paragraphs 1 to 7 of this column.\n8. None.\n9. Discharges begun after the day on which section 34 of the Act comes into force which are of a kind exempted under paragraphs 1 to 7 of this column and are made from a pipe or outlet the construction of which was begun before 31st August 1983.\n9. None.",
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    {
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      "affecting": "uksi/1986/1623",
      "affecting_title": "The Control of Pollution (Exemption of Certain Discharges from Control) (Variation) Order 1986"
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