{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991/section-98.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/57",
  "legislation_title": "Water Resources Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-resources-act-1991",
  "path": "section/98",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Radioactive substances.",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section, nothing in this Part shall apply in relation to radioactive waste within the meaning of the Environmental Permitting Regulations.\n(2) The Secretary of State may by regulations—\n(a) provide for prescribed provisions of this Part to have effect with such modifications as he considers appropriate for dealing with such waste;\n(b) make such modifications of the Environmental Permitting Regulations or, in relation to such waste, of any other enactment as he considers appropriate in consequence of the provisions of this Part and of any regulations made by virtue of paragraph (a) above.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 98(1) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 26 para. 8(7)(a) (with reg. 1(2), Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 98(2) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 26 para. 8(7)(b) (with reg. 1(2), Sch. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/57/section/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:46.190861+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."
}