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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-25/paragraph-13",
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  "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/25/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Site investigation boreholes and trial pits",
  "text": "(1) Site investigation boreholes and trial pits within a flood plain.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the specific conditions are—\n(a) the works are more than 5 metres from any culvert, remote defence or flood defence structure on the main river and from any sea defence,\n(b) the works are more than 8 metres from the banks of a non-tidal main river,\n(c) the works are more than 16 metres from the banks of a tidal main river, and\n(d) the works are completed, including refilling of the borehole or pit, within 48 hours.",
  "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/25/paragraph/13",
    "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."
}