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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-3/part-II",
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  "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/3/part/II",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "WASTE DISPOSAL OPERATIONS",
  "text": "N.B. This Part of this Schedule is intended to list disposal operations such as they occur in practice. All waste must be disposed of without endangering human health and without harming the environment.\n*Operation Code\nDescription\nD1\nDeposit into or onto land (e.g. landfill etc.).\nD2\nLand treatment (e.g. biodegradation of liquid or sludge discards in soils, etc.).\nD3\nDeep injection (e.g. injection of pumpable discards into wells, salt domes or naturally occurring repositories, etc.).\nD4\nSurface impoundment (e.g. placement of liquid or sludgy discards into pits, ponds or lagoons, etc.).\nD5\nSpecially engineered landfill (e.g. placement into lined discrete cells which are capped and isolated from one another and the environment, etc.).\nD6\nRelease into a water body except seas/oceans.\nD7\nRelease to seas/oceans including sea-bed insertion.\nD8\nBiological treatment not specified elsewhere in this Part of this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12.\nD9\nPhysico-chemical treatment not specified elsewhere in this Part of this Schedule which results in final compounds or mixtures which are discarded by means of any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 (e.g. evaporation, drying, calcination, etc.).\nD10\nIncineration on land.\nD11\nIncineration at sea.*\n*This operation is prohibited by assimilated law and international conventions.\nD12\nPermanent storage (e.g. emplacement of containers in a mine, etc.).\nD13\nBlending or mixing prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D12 *\n*If there is no other D code appropriate, this can include preliminary operations prior to disposal, including pre-processing such as sorting, crushing, compacting, pelletising, drying, shredding, conditioning or separating prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D12.\nD14\nRepackaging prior to submission to any of the operations numbered D1 to D13.\nD15\nStorage pending any of the operations numbered D1 to D14, (excluding temporary storage, pending collection, on the site where the waste is produced.*\n* Temporary storage means preliminary storage according to point (10) of Article 3",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 substituted (8.4.2011) by The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/127), regs. 1(1), 40 (with reg. 9(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Protection (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/289), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 Pt. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Protection (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/289), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 3(13)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 3 Pt.2 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 10 para. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/493/schedule/3/part/II",
    "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."
}