{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111491423",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Requirement for environmental permit",
  "text": "(1) A person must not, except under and to the extent authorised by an environmental permit—\n(a) operate a regulated facility; or\n(b) cause or knowingly permit a water discharge activity or groundwater activity.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(b) does not apply if the water discharge activity or groundwater activity is an exempt facility.\n(3) Where a person (“A”) would, except for this paragraph, require an environmental permit to receive radioactive waste from another person (“B”) for the purpose of disposing of that waste, A does not require a permit for that receipt where—\n(a) B holds an environmental permit which allows B to dispose of the waste to A; and\n(b) the waste is disposed of by A in accordance with that permit.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111491423/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:55:48.989463+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."
}