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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-emissions-trading-act-2003-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2499",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (Amendment) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-emissions-trading-act-2003-amendment-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 5 (alteration of allocations under section 4)",
  "text": "In section 5—\n(a) for subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) In exercising the power under subsection (1), an authority must ensure that the total amount of waste authorised to be sent to landfills by allowances allocated by it for a year does not cause the amount of biodegradable municipal waste sent to landfills for that year to exceed the amount specified for its area under section 1 or 2.”; and\n(b) at the end of subsection (4)(b) insert “ including in particular how the authority has complied with the duty in subsection (3) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2499/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:53:00.008822+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."
}