Explanatory note

These Regulations transfer from the Health and Safety Executive to the Secretary of State the responsibility for enforcing enactments restricting the emission from certain industrial premises of substances which pollute the atmosphere and, consequentially, modify certain legislation related to those enactments so that it refers or is treated as referring to the Secretary of State. The Regulations contain a transitional provision designed to ensure that anything in the process of being done by or in relation to the Health and Safety Executive before the transfer can be continued by or in relation to the Secretary of State after it.