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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/627",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Paragraph 6 does not apply to—\n(a) a site used for the storage of metallic mercury pursuant to Article 3(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1102/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the banning of exports of metallic mercury and certain mercury compounds and mixtures and the safe storage of metallic mercury ;\n(b) onshore underground gas storage in natural strata, aquifers, salt cavities and disused mines;\n(c) chemical and thermal processing operations and storage related to those operations; or\n(d) operational tailings disposal facilities, including tailing ponds or dams, containing a hazardous substance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. L 304, 14.11.2008, p. 75."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/627/schedule/2/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:43:23.974380+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."
}