{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/496",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Initial site inspections by the Chief Inspector",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a landfill shall not commence disposal operations before the Chief Inspector has inspected the site in order to ensure that it complies with the relevant conditions of the landfill permit.\n(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) in any way reduces the obligations of the operator to comply with the conditions of the landfill permit",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in operation at 6.1.2004, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/496",
      "affecting_title": "The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2015/14",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/496/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:00:16.822578+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."
}