{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-15-order-1994/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-15-order-1994/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1096",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 15) Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990-commencement-no-15-order-1994",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (Commencement No. 15) Order 1994.\n(2) In this Order—\n“appropriate date”, in relation to an appeal, means the date on which—\n(a) the period for appealing expires without an appeal being made; or\n(b) Bany appeal is withdrawn or finally determined;\n“authorisation” has the meaning given in section 1(9) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;\n“existing process” and “prescribed date” have the same meaning as in Schedule 3 to the Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991;\n“relevant date”, in relation to an application for a licence, means the date on which the licence applied for is grantedor, if the application is (or is deemed to be) rejected, the date on which\n(a) the period for appealing expires without an appeal being made; or\n(b) any appeal is withdrawn or finally determined;\nand\n“scrap metal” has the same meaning as in the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 1964.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/472, amended by S.I. 1991/836, 1992/614, 1993/1749, 2405."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1964 c. 69; see section 9(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1096/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:22.221016+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."
}