{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-prescribed-processes-and-substances-regulations-1991/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-prescribed-processes-and-substances-regulations-1991/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/472",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-prescribed-processes-and-substances-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, application and commencement",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force in England and Wales on 1st April 1991 and in Scotland on 1st April 1992.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.W.) (6.4.2008) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3538), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 22 (with regs. 69-72); and lapsed (S.) by virtue of repeal of power conferring provision 1990 c. 43, s. 2 (S.) (1.4.2015) by Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (c. 24), s. 7(3), Sch. 3 (with s. 7(7)); S.S.I. 2015/74, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.4.1991 for E.W. and 1.4.1992 for S., see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/472/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:49:53.509555+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."
}