Article 2 Amendment of the Control of Pollution (Exemption of Certain Discharges from Control) (Variation) Order 1986F1I1

The Control of Pollution (Exemption of Certain Discharges from Control) (Variation) Order 1986^f1 shall be varied by inserting after article 3 the following article —

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Where an application for consent in pursuance of section 34 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974^f2 in respect of any discharge is duly made by a water authority to the Secretary of State before 15th October 1987 and the discharge in question is substantially a continuation of a previous discharge which during the year ending on 14th October 1987 was by virtue of article 3 of the 1983 Order lawfully made without such consent (any reduction of the temperature, volume or rate of the discharge as compared with that of the previous discharge being disregarded), the Secretary of State shall be deemed to have given unconditionally the consent applied for until he actually gives consent or refuses consent.”