{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2009/995",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-damage-prevention-and-remediation-wales-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Areas of application",
  "text": "(1) The damage must be in an area specified in the following table—\nType of damage\nArea in which these Regulations apply\nDamage to water\nWales and all water up to one nautical mile seaward from the baseline in Wales\nDamage to marine waters\nAll marine waters within any of the following descriptions—\n(a)marine waters up to one nautical mile seaward from the baseline in Wales so far as not already addressed as damage to water;\n(b)marine waters from one nautical mile seaward from the baseline in Wales, extending out to 12 nautical miles from the baseline in Wales\nDamage in a site of special scientific interest\nWales\nDamage to protected species or natural habitats\nWales\nDamage to land\nWales\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1394), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 6(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1394), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 6(2) omitted (19.7.2015) by virtue of The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1394), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2009/995/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:56:23.869241+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."
}