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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-22/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-22/paragraph-10.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": "schedule/22/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Notice requiring environmental permit",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where—\n(a) any person is carrying on, or proposing to carry on, any activity on or in the ground, and\n(b) that activity might lead to a discharge mentioned in paragraph 3(1)(a), (b) or (c).\n(2) The regulator may serve a notice on the person requiring the person, from the date the notice takes effect, to hold an environmental permit authorising the carrying on of the activity.\n(3) A notice under sub-paragraph (2) takes effect on the date specified in it, but—\n(a) a notice served for the purpose of paragraph 11 must not take effect until at least 6 months after it is served, and\n(b) a notice served for the purpose of paragraph 12, or for any other purpose, must not take effect until at least 3 months after it is served.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2016/9780111150184/schedule/22/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}