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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-23/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-23/paragraph-16.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/23/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Solid radioactive waste",
  "text": "(1) Solid radioactive waste referred to in paragraph 15 means—\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (2)—\n(i) solid radioactive waste described in an entry in column 1 of Table 6 which does not contain a concentration of radionuclides that exceeds the value specified in column 2 of that table in respect of that kind of waste, or\n(ii) a broken or damaged individual sealed source of the type described in the fourth entry in Table 6 (individual sealed sources which are solely radioactive waste because they contain tritium), which would not have exceeded the value specified in column 2 when the source was intact, or\n(b) a sealed source, an electrodeposited source or a tritium foil source which is not described in paragraph (a).\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1)(a) does not apply to waste—\n(a) where, prior to the disposal of that waste, a person has diluted it with the intention of ensuring that sub-paragraph (1)(a) is met, or\n(b) which is NORM waste....",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 23 Pt. 6 para. 16(1)(a) substituted (2.5.2018) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/428), reg. 1, Sch. para. 27(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 23 Pt. 6 para. 16(2)(b) omitted (2.5.2018) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/428), reg. 1, Sch. para. 27(b)"
    }
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  },
  "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."
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