{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-prevention-and-remediation-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-prevention-and-remediation-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/252",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Liability (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-prevention-and-remediation-regulations-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Temporal application",
  "text": "These Regulations shall not apply to—\n(a) damage caused by an incident, event or emission that finished before the coming into operation of these Regulations;\n(b) damage or imminent threat of damage caused by an incident, event or emission that occurs after that date if it derives from an activity that took place and finished before that date; or\n(c) damage caused by an emission, event or incident that took place 30 years or more before the damage.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 24.7.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/252/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:31:11.516058+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."
}