{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2007/regulation-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Interpretation: excluded waste operation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, “excluded waste operation” means—\n(a) a waste operation which is or forms part of an operation which—\n(i) is the subject of a licence under Part II of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985, or\n(ii) by virtue of an order under section 7 of that Act, does not require such a licence;\n(b) the disposal of liquid waste under a consent under Chapter II of Part III of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n(c) the disposal of agricultural waste in or on land under an authorisation under regulation 18 of the Groundwater Regulations 1998;\n(d) the disposal or recovery of waste which is not to be treated as industrial waste or commercial waste by virtue of regulation 7(1) of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/2746."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/588; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1993/556, 1994/1056, 1995/288, 2006/937."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110788760/regulation/4",
    "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."
}