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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/161",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In Regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations–\n(a) insert the following definition at the appropriate place–\n““the Directive” means Council Directive 99/31/EC of 26th April 1999 on the landfill of waste as amended by Council Directive 2011/97/EU of 5th December 2011 as regards specific criteria for the storage of metallic mercury considered as waste;”;\n(b) for the words from “and other expressions used in these Regulations” to the end substitute the words “ and other expressions used in these Regulations and the Directive shall have the same meaning as in the Directive. ”\n(2) In regulation 9 of the principal Regulations, in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute–\n“(a) any waste in liquid form other than–\n(i) sludge; and\n(ii) metallic mercury,\nbut including waste water;”.\n(3) Schedules 1 to 3 (amendments to Schedules 1 to 3 of the principal Regulations) have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/161/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:29.178577+00:00"
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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."
}