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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-management-licensing-scotland-regulations-2011/schedule-4/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111012147",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Duties of the waste regulation authority",
  "text": "(1) The waste regulation authority shall discharge its specified functions, insofar as they relate to waste, with the objectives set out in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) Those objectives are ensuring that—\n(a) the waste hierarchy set out in paragraph 6(2) and (3) is applied to the generation of waste by the holder of a permit (other than a licence under Part II of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 or Part 4 of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010) in the course of any activity authorised by that permit;\n(b) waste generated by such an activity is treated in accordance with that hierarchy;\n(c) waste generated by such an activity is managed in accordance with paragraph 6(1)(a); and\n(d) Article 23(3) of the Directive is complied with.\n(3) The duty in sub-paragraph (2)(a) and (b) takes effect in relation to a permit which is in force on 27th March 2011 when that permit is next modified after that date.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111012147/schedule/4/paragraph/2",
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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."
}