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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-prevention-and-remediation-regulations-northern-ireland-2009/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
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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/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Choice of remediation",
  "text": "The remediation options shall be evaluated using best available methods, and based on—\n(a) the effect of each option on public health and safety;\n(b) the cost of implementing the option;\n(c) the likelihood of success of each option;\n(d) the extent to which each option will prevent future damage and avoid collateral damage as a result of implementing the option;\n(e) the extent to which each option benefits each component of the natural resource or service;\n(f) the extent to which each option takes account of relevant social, economic and cultural concerns and other relevant factors specific to the locality;\n(g) the length of time it will take for the restoration of the environmental damage to be effective;\n(h) the extent to which each option achieves the restoration of site of the environmental damage; and\n(j) the geographical linkage to the damaged site.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 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/schedule/4/paragraph/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."
}