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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-groundwater-england-and-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-13",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2009/9780111480816",
  "legislation_title": "The Groundwater (England and Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-groundwater-england-and-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Discharge of a hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence to cause or knowingly permit the discharge of any hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant in circumstances that might lead to an indirect input of that hazardous substance or non-hazardous pollutant into groundwater unless it is carried on under and in accordance with a permit granted by the Agency under this regulation.\nBut this does not apply in relation to—\n(a) a discharge that requires a discharge consent within the meaning of section 91(8) of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n(b) the operation of a regulated facility under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007;\n(c) a disposal that requires an authorisation under section 13 of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993; or\n(d) the keeping or use of mobile radioactive apparatus that requires a registration under section 10 of that Act.\n(2) An operator of a highway drain (or, until 1st January 2012, a person using a domestic septic tank or sewage treatment plant with a daily discharge of less than 2m3) does not commit an offence under this regulation unless the Agency has served a notice on that person under regulation 18 in relation to that discharge, and the operator has failed to comply with that notice.\n(3) In this regulation “highway drain” means a drain which a highway authority or other person is entitled to keep open by virtue of section 100 of the Highways Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2009/9780111480816/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:57:06.448623+00:00"
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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."
}