{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/2002/3153",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-northern-ireland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Purpose of Article 4",
  "text": "The purpose of Article 4 is to enable provision to be made for or in connection with—\n(a) implementing Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control) ;\n(b) regulating, otherwise than in pursuance of that Directive, activities which are capable of causing any environmental pollution;\n(c) otherwise preventing or controlling emissions capable of causing any such pollution.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 3(a) substituted (17.1.2019) by The Air Quality (Amendment, etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/215), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/2002/3153/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:28.857948+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."
}