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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/24",
  "legislation_title": "Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Prohibiting persons from operating any installation or plant of any specified description, or otherwise carrying on any activities of any specified description, except—\n(a) under a permit in force under the regulations, and\n(b) in accordance with any conditions to which the permit is subject.\n(2) In relation to England and Wales, imposing such a prohibition in relation to an activity except where the carrying on of the activity meets conditions determined by the regulators in accordance with the regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 renumbered as Sch. 1 para. 4(1) (9.1.2022) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), ss. 70(a), 147(2)(i) (with s. 144)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4(2) inserted (9.1.2022) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), ss. 70(b), 147(2)(i) (with s. 144)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/24/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:50.595388+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."
}