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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-15",
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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/5/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Time limits for determination",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) the regulator has not determined an application within the relevant period, and\n(b) the applicant serves a notice on the regulator which refers to this paragraph,\nthe application is deemed to have been refused on the day on which the notice is served.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply—\n(a) to an application for the grant of an environmental permit that, if granted, would authorise the carrying on of a radioactive substances activity at a nuclear site, or\n(b) to an application for the transfer of an environmental permit where the permit authorises the carrying on of a radioactive substances activity at a nuclear site.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1) “the relevant period” means a period, calculated in accordance with paragraph 16, of—\n(a) in the case of an application for the transfer of an environmental permit in whole or in part, 2 months,\n(b) in the case of an application for the grant or variation, in whole or in part, of an environmental permit relating to a stand-alone flood risk activity only, 2 months,\n(c) in a case where paragraph 6 applies, 4 months, or\n(d) in any other case, 3 months,\nor in any case, a longer period than the period in paragraphs (a) to (d), if it is agreed by the regulator and the applicant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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