{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-regulations-1999/regulation-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-regulations-1999/regulation-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2024",
  "legislation_title": "The Quarries Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quarries-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/46",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Exemptions",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt any quarry, part of a quarry or class of quarries, any person or class of persons, any plant or class of plant or any operation or class of operations from all or any of the prohibitions and requirements of these Regulations, and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked at any time by a certificate in writing.\n(2) The Executive shall not grant any such exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances of the case and in particular to—\n(a) the conditions, if any, it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactment which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 46 in force at 1.1.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2024/regulation/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:31.809270+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."
}