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Regulation 14 Consents for discharges by the Agency

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Section 88 of the Water Resources Act 1991 (defence to principal offences in respect of authorised discharges) shall have effect in relation to cases in which consents for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) of that section are required by the Agency as if for subsection (2) there were substituted—

“(2)

Schedule 2 to the Control of Pollution (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1996 shall apply with respect to the making of applications by the Agency for consents under this Chapter for the purposes of subsection (1)(a) above and with respect to the giving, revocation and modification of such consents.”

(2)

Schedule 2 to these Regulations (which deals with consents for discharges by the Agency) shall have effect.