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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-4/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/496",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Existing landfills: transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph shall apply to any landfill if –\n(a) it falls within paragraph (b) of Part A of section 5.2 in Part I of Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulations; and\n(b) it has not been brought into operation by the relevant date but an application for a waste management licence or a disposal licence was duly made before that date.\n(2) Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 3 to the 2003 Regulations shall apply as if in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) “the relevant date as specified in the 2003 Landfill Regulations” were substituted for “1st January 2004”.\n(3) Anything duly done by or in relation to the application for a waste management licence shall be treated as if it had been duly done in relation to an application for a landfill permit.\n(4) The Chief Inspector may give the applicant notice requiring him –\n(a) to provide such further information of any description specified in the notice; or\n(b) to take such further steps as it may require for the purpose of determining the application.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
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