{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2016/9780111150184",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Requirement for an 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) In respect of a radioactive substances activity, paragraph (1) does not apply to a person to whom a radioactive substances exemption applies for that activity.\n(4) Paragraph (5) applies to a person (“A”) who—\n(a) receives radioactive waste from another person (“B”) for the purposes of A disposing of that waste, and\n(b) subsequently disposes of that waste.\n(5) Where this paragraph applies, A does not require an environmental permit—\n(a) for the receipt of waste from B, where B holds an environmental permit which allows B to dispose of the waste to A, or\n(b) for the subsequent disposal of that waste by A, where the waste is disposed of in accordance with the permit held by B.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111150184/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:07:48.139767+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."
}