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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-effluent-registers-scotland-regulations-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-effluent-registers-scotland-regulations-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2533",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Effluent (Registers) (Scotland) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-effluent-registers-scotland-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, prescribe the particulars to be entered in the registers to be maintained by water and sewerage authorities in terms of section 37A of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968. Provision is made to include details of existing discharges, application notices, discharge consents, directions (issued on review of consents and existing discharges) and agreements as respects trade premises. There is provision to exclude from the registers particulars relating to the affairs of any individual or business if, and so long as, in the opinion of the relevant water and sewerage authority, those particulars are commercially confidential. Finally, the Regulations provide for the registers to be open to inspection by the public from 30th June 1999.\nSection 37A(3) of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968 requires each water and sewerage authority to secure that the registers are open to inspection by the public free of charge at all reasonable hours. It also requires them to afford members of the public reasonable facilities for obtaining copies of entries in the register on payment of reasonable charges.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2533/note",
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  "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."
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