{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-amendment-england-regulations-2026/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-amendment-england-regulations-2026/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348288001",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-amendment-england-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment to Schedule 3 (exempt facilities and waste operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply: descriptions and conditions)",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 3 is amended as follows.\n(2) In Part 2 (exempt water discharge activities: descriptions and conditions)—\n(a) at the end of the heading of Part 2 insert “: Wales”;\n(b) in paragraph 1—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1) for “paragraphs 5(a)(i) and 6(a)(i)” substitute “paragraph 5(a)(i)”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (2) for “paragraphs 5(a)(ii) and 6(a)(ii)” substitute “paragraph 5(a)(ii)”.\n(3) In Part 3 (exempt groundwater activities: descriptions and conditions)—\n(a) at the end of the heading of Part 3 insert “: Wales”;\n(b) in paragraph 1 omit the definitions of “ancient woodland”, “groundwater tracer test” and “protected site”;\n(c) in paragraph 2—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(aa) for “paragraphs 7(a)(i) and 8(a)(i)” substitute “paragraph 7(a)(i)”;\n(bb) after “groundwater tracer test” insert “(see regulation 5)”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (2) for “paragraphs 7(a)(ii) and 8(a)(ii)” substitute “paragraph 7(a)(ii)”;\n(d) omit paragraph 4;\n(e) in paragraph 5—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (1) for “paragraphs 7(a)(i) and 8(a)(i)” substitute “paragraph 7(a)(i)”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (2)—\n(aa) for “paragraphs 7(a)(ii) and 8(a)(ii)” substitute “paragraph 7(a)(ii)”;\n(bb) in paragraph (e) omit “in relation to Wales,”;\n(cc) omit paragraph (ea);\n(f) omit paragraphs 6 and 7.\n(4) In Part 5 (other waste operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply: descriptions and conditions), at the end of the heading of Part 5 insert “: Wales”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 3 was amended by S.I. 2017/1012, 2018/1227, 2019/39, 2020/904 and 2023/651 and is amended prospectively by S.I. 2026/873 from 22nd July 2027."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348288001/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:36:43.751291+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}