{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/schedule-3/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1997/2778",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Protection of human health and the environment",
  "text": "To ensure that waste management is carried out without endangering human health, without harming the environment and, in particular—\n(a) without risk to water, air, soil, plants or animals;\n(b) without causing a nuisance through noise or odours; and\n(c) without adversely affecting the countryside or places of special interest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 substituted (18.12.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/285), regs. 1(1), 2(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/2778/schedule/3/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:15.100824+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."
}