{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1154",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, “regulated facility” means any of the following—\n(a) an installation;\n(b) mobile plant;\n(c) a waste operation;\n(d) a mining waste operation;\n(e) a radioactive substances activity;\n(f) a water discharge activity;\n(g) a groundwater activity;\n(h) a small waste incineration plant;\n(i) a solvent emission activity;\n(j) a flood risk activity.\n(k) a medium combustion plant;\n(l) a specified generator\n(2) But the following are not regulated facilities—\n(a) an exempt facility;\n(b) an excluded waste operation;\n(c) the disposal or recovery of household waste from a domestic property within the curtilage of that property by a person other than an establishment or undertaking;\n(d) an excluded flood risk activity.\n(3) In these Regulations, a reference to a class of regulated facility is a reference to a class in paragraph (1).\n(4) A regulated facility of any of the following classes may be carried on as part of the operation of a regulated facility of another class—\n(a) a waste operation;\n(b) a mining waste operation;\n(c) a water discharge activity;\n(d) a groundwater activity;\n(e) a small waste incineration plant;\n(f) a solvent emission activity;\n(g) a flood risk activity.\n(h) a medium combustion plant;\n(i) a specified generator",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1)(k)(l) inserted (30.1.2018) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/110), regs. 1, 6(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 8(4)(h)(i) inserted (30.1.2018) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/110), regs. 1, 6(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/873",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Permitting (Waste Controlling or Transporting) and Relevant Functions of Primary Authorities (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/873",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Permitting (Waste Controlling or Transporting) and Relevant Functions of Primary Authorities (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/873",
      "affecting_title": "The Environmental Permitting (Waste Controlling or Transporting) and Relevant Functions of Primary Authorities (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:31.926820+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."
}