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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-hexachloroethane-regulations-1998/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Controls on Hexachloroethane) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-controls-on-hexachloroethane-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exceptions to the prohibition",
  "text": "Hexachloroethane may be used in the manufacturing or processing of non-ferrous metals:—\n(a) for research and development or analysis purposes;\n(b) in non-integrated aluminium foundries producing specialised castings for applications requiring high quality and high safety standards and where consumption is less than 1.5 kilogrammes of hexachloroethane per day on average; and\n(c) for grain refining in the production of the magnesium alloys AZ81, AZ91 and AZ92.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/545/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:00.965363+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."
}