{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978/article-56.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1978/1049",
  "legislation_title": "Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-control-and-local-government-northern-ireland-order-1978",
  "path": "article/56",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Cable burning",
  "text": "(1) A person who burns insulation from a cable with a view to recovering metal from the cable shall be guilty of an offence unless the burning is part of an activity subject to regulations under Article 4 of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002 or the burning is part of a process subject to the Industrial Pollution Control Order. . . .\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under this Article shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2002 NI 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1997 NI 18"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1049/article/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:53:02.753419+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."
}