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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/large-combustion-plant-control-of-emissions-scotland-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/large-combustion-plant-control-of-emissions-scotland-regulations-1991/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/562",
  "legislation_title": "The Large Combustion Plant (Control of Emissions) (Scotland) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/large-combustion-plant-control-of-emissions-scotland-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n“chief inspector” means an inspector so appointed for the purposes of these Regulations by the Secretary of State under section 19 of the Act;\n“emission” means the discharge of substances into the air;\n“operator” means any natural or legal person who operates the plant or who has or has been delegated decisive economic power over it;\n“plant” means existing plant within the meaning of Council Directive 88/609/EEC;\n“HMIPI Register” means the register of plant emission limits issued by Her Majesty’s Industrial Pollution Inspectorate with reference to the UK national plan made by the Secretary of State under section 3(5) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 on 20 December 1990 and any reference in these Regulations to the HMIPI Register means that register as revised or re-issued from time to time;\n“reporting period” means such period of not less than 28, and not more than 35, days as the operator may, with the approval of the chief inspector, determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L336, 7.12.88, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 43."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/562/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:48:48.461474+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."
}