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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010/regulation-5.json",
  "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/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation: exempt facilities",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“exempt facility” means—\n(a) an exempt waste operation,\n(b) an exempt water discharge activity, or\n(c) an exempt groundwater activity;\n“exempt groundwater activity” means a stand-alone groundwater activity that meets the requirements of paragraph 5 of Schedule 2;\n“exempt waste operation” means a waste operation—\n(a) that—\n(i) is not carried on at an installation, or\n(ii) is an activity that falls within Section 5.3 or Section 5.4 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 and is carried on at an installation, and\n(b) that meets the requirements of paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 2; and\n“exempt water discharge activity” means a stand-alone water discharge activity that meets the requirements of paragraph 4 of Schedule 2.\n(2) In these Regulations, in relation to an exempt waste operation, a reference to any of paragraphs U1 to U16, T1 to T33, D1 to D8 or S1 to S3 has the meaning given in paragraph 1(8) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 3.",
  "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/5",
    "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."
}