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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-registers-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1160",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Pollution (Registers) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-registers-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the 1989 Act” means the Water Act 1989; and any reference in these Regulations to a numbered section is a reference to that section of that Act;\n“Chapter I” means Chapter I of Part III of the 1989 Act;\n“map reference”, in relation to any place, means the group of two letters and six or more figures representing the map co-ordinates of the place referred to on the grid of the national reference system used by the Ordnance Survey on its maps and plans;\n“relevant event” means the service, making, giving or issue of such notice, application, consent or certificate as is referred to in section 117(1)(a) to (d); and\n“the register” means the registers which it is the duty of the National Rivers Authority (“the Authority”) to maintain in pursuance of section 117(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1160/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:02.660593+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."
}