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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-prevention-and-remediation-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Discharges requiring authorisation",
  "text": "(1) All discharges into the inland surface water that require prior authorisation in pursuance of Directive 2000/60 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.\n(2) All discharges of substances into groundwater that require prior authorisation in pursuance of Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.\n(3) All discharges or injections of pollutants into surface water or groundwater that require a permit, authorisation or registration under Directive 2000/60/EC.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 4(1) substituted (24.12.2018) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/200), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 4(2) substituted (24.12.2018) by The Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/200), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 26(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in operation at 24.7.2009, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L327, 22.12.00, p.1 (as amended by Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, O.J. No. L348, 24.12.08, p.84)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/252/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}