{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heather-and-grass-etc-burning-england-regulations-2021/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heather-and-grass-etc-burning-england-regulations-2021/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/158",
  "legislation_title": "The Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/heather-and-grass-etc-burning-england-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Regulation of burning",
  "text": "Where a licence is granted under regulation 4, or where regulation 3(2) applies, a person must not—\n(a) commence any burning between sunset and sunrise;\n(b) carry out any burning unless—\n(i) there are, where the burning is taking place, sufficient persons and equipment to control and regulate the burning during the entire period of the burning activity, and\n(ii) before starting to burn and during the entire period of the burning activity, all reasonable precautions are taken to prevent injury, or damage to any adjacent land, or to any person or thing on that land; and\n(c) leave soil smouldering, where that is connected to the burning activity, for more than 48 hours, unless permitted to do so by the licence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 5 in force at 1.5.2021, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/158/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:21.291220+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."
}