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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-12/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Authorisations: separation of mixed hazardous waste",
  "text": "(1) SEPA must ensure that an authorisation for the management of hazardous waste includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that where such waste is already mixed with other waste, substances, or materials, separation is effected as soon as reasonably practicable where—\n(a) technically feasible,\n(b) necessary in order to prevent environmental harm.\n(2) Where separation of mixed hazardous waste in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) is not technically feasible or necessary, mixed hazardous waste must only be treated in a facility authorised by SEPA to treat mixed hazardous waste.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 3 (with sch. 23)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/12/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:56.403037+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."
}