{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-48.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/493",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/48",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule –\na container, lagoon or place is “secure” in relation to waste kept in it if all reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that the waste cannot escape from it and members of the public are unable to gain access to the waste, and any reference to secure storage means storage in a secure container, lagoon or place;\n“inland waters” means the whole or any part of –\n(a)any river, stream or other watercourse (within the meaning of the Water Order), whether natural or artificial and whether tidal or not;\n(b)any lake or pond, whether natural or artificial, or any reservoir or dock, in so far as the lake, pond, reservoir or dock does not fall within paragraph (a) of this definition; and\n(c)so much of any channel, creek, bay, estuary or arm of the sea as does not fall within paragraph (a) or (b) of this definition.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 48 in operation at 19.12.2003, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/493/schedule/2/paragraph/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:00:19.401279+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."
}