{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-10/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-10/paragraph-5.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": "schedule/10/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exercise of relevant functions",
  "text": "(1) The regulator must exercise its relevant functions so as to ensure compliance with the following provisions of the Landfill Directive—\n(a) Article 4;\n(b) Article 5(3) and (4);\n(c) Article 6;\n(d) Article 8, but not in respect of nuisances and hazards arising from traffic beyond the site of a landfill;\n(e) Article 9;\n(f) Article 10;\n(g) Article 11(1);\n(h) Article 12;\n(i) Article 13;\n(j) Article 14.\n(2) The regulator must exercise those relevant functions having regard to Article 1 of the Landfill Directive.\n(3) The regulator must exercise those relevant functions so as to ensure compliance with the requirements imposed ... by the following provisions of the Decision—\n(a) Article 2;\n(b) Article 3;\n(c) Article 4.\n(4) The regulator may exercise those relevant functions so as to permit the storage of metallic mercury in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council on mercury.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 5(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/39), regs. 1, 2(14)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 5(4) substituted (E.) (1.6.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), art. 1(2), reg. 12(3)(a) and words in Sch. 10 para. 5(4) substituted (W.) (17.12.2018) by The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 5(5) omitted (E.) (1.6.2018) by virtue of The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), art. 1(2), reg. 12(3)(b) and Sch. 10 para. 5(5) omitted (W.) (17.12.2018) by virtue of The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 14(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/schedule/10/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}