{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/465",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-noise-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Application and Competent Authority",
  "text": "This Chapter applies to noise from–\n(a) major airports; and\n(b) other airports where air traffic from the airport results in air traffic noise of an Lden value of 55 dB(A) or greater or an night value of 50 dB(A) or greater anywhere in first round agglomerations or agglomerations,\nand the competent authority is the airport operator.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 5.10.2006, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/465/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:56.804202+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."
}