{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pollution-prevention-and-control-england-and-wales-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pollution-prevention-and-control-england-and-wales-regulations-2000/schedule-1/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2000/0110994205",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-pollution-prevention-and-control-england-and-wales-regulations-2000",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Part 1 of this Schedule—\n“background quantity” means, in relation to the release of a substance resulting from an activity, such quantity of that substance as is present in—\n(i) water supplied to the site where the activity is carried out;\n(ii) water abstracted for use in the activity; and\n(iii) precipitation onto the site on which the activity is carried out;\n“Part A activity” means an activity falling within Part A(1) or A(2) of any Section in Part 1 of this Schedule;\n“Part A(1) activity” means an activity falling within Part A(1) of any Section in Part 1 of this Schedule;\n“Part A(2) activity” means an activity falling within Part A(2) of any Section in Part 1 of this Schedule;\n“Part B activity” means an activity falling within Part B of any Section in Part 1 of this Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2000/0110994205/schedule/1/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:18:54.401351+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."
}