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  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016",
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  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“occupier” means a person who is or has been the occupier of the land on which an exempt water discharge activity or exempt groundwater activity is carried on;\n“operator” means the person carrying on a water discharge activity or groundwater activity;\n“register” means the register which the exemption registration authority is required to establish and maintain under paragraph 11(1);\n“registered” means—\n(a)in relation to a waste operation, that the relevant particulars appear on the register during a valid registration period,\n(b)in relation to a water discharge activity, groundwater activity or flood risk activity, that the relevant particulars appear on the register,\nand “registration” is to be construed accordingly;\n“relevant particulars” has the meaning given in paragraph 10(4);\n“valid registration period”, for an exempt waste operation, means the period of validity of a registration referred to in paragraph 15(1), as read with paragraph 15(2);\n“WEEE operation” means a waste operation falling within a description in paragraph T11.\n(2) In this Schedule, in relation to an exempt waste operation, a reference to any of paragraphs U1 to U16, T1 to T33, D1 to D8 or S1 to S3 has the meaning given in paragraph 1(8) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 3.",
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