{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021/section-70.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2021/30",
  "legislation_title": "Environment Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-2021",
  "path": "section/70",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Regulation of polluting activities",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999, in paragraph 4 (permits)—\n(a) the existing text becomes sub-paragraph (1);\n(b) after that sub-paragraph insert—\n“(2) In relation to England and Wales, imposing such a prohibition in relation to an activity except where the carrying on of the activity meets conditions determined by the regulators in accordance with the regulations.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 70 in force at 9.1.2022, see s. 147(2)(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/section/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:58:04.548359+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."
}