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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-wales-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-hazardous-substances-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Paragraph 5 does not apply to—\n(a) a site used for the storage of metallic mercury pursuant to Article 13(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council on mercury, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1102/2008, as amended from time to time;\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": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 6(a) substituted (17.12.2018) by The Environment, Planning and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1216), regs. 1(3), 18(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1597/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:26.702503+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."
}