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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110788760",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Variation of an environmental permit",
  "text": "(1) The regulator may vary an environmental permit on the application of the operator or on its own initiative.\n(2) But a variation made under paragraph (1) must not reduce the extent of the site of a regulated facility.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to Part B installations.\n(4) Part 1 (grant, variation, transfer and surrender of environmental permits) of Schedule 5 applies in relation to an application to vary an environmental permit or a proposal to vary an environmental permit on the initiative of the regulator under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110788760/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:17:33.841180+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."
}