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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1221",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Extractive industry",
  "text": "(a) Extracting peat;\n(b) deep drilling, including—\n(i) geothermal drilling;\n(ii) drilling for the storage of nuclear waste material; and\n(iii) drilling for water supplies;\nbut excluding drilling to investigate the stability of the soil;\n(c) extracting minerals (other than metalliferous and energy-producing minerals), such as marble, sand, gravel, shale, salt, phosphates and potash;\n(d) extracting coal or lignite by underground or open-cast mining;\n(e) extracting petroleum;\n(f) extracting natural gas;\n(g) extracting ores;\n(h) extracting bituminous shale;\n(i) extracting minerals (other than metalliferous and energy-producing minerals) by open-cast mining;\n(j) a surface industrial installation for the extraction of coal, petroleum, natural gas or ores, or bituminous shale;\n(k) a coke oven (dry coal distillation); and\n(l) an installation for the manufacture of cement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2012",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/2012",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994"
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1221/schedule/2/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."
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