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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2013/160",
  "legislation_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pollution-prevention-and-control-industrial-emissions-regulations-northern-ireland-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Part 1—\n“background quantity” means, in relation to the release of a substance resulting from an activity, such quantity of that substance as is present in—\n(i)water supplied to the site where the activity is carried out;\n(ii)water abstracted for use in the activity; and\n(iii)precipitation onto the site on which the activity is carried out;\n“Part A activity” means an activity falling within Part A of any section in Part 1;\n“Part B activity” means an activity falling within Part B of any section in Part 1;\n“Part C activity” means an activity falling within Part C of any section in Part 1.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 8 in operation at 20.6.2013, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2013/160/schedule/1/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:30.260718+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."
}