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The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

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Draft 2009, ISBN 9780111487112

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Draft Regulations laid before Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales under section 2(8) and (9)(d) and (e) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 for approval by resolution of each of House of Parliament and the Assembly.

Environmental Protection, England And Wales

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Coming into force 6th April 2010

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999f1.

The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, have in accordance with section 2(4) of that Act consulted—

(a)

the Environment Agency;

(b)

such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively as they consider appropriate; and

(c)

such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.

A draft of this instrument has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament and by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to section 2(8) and (9)(d) and (e) of that Act.

Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make the following Regulations.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1999 c. 24. Functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 (except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of S.I. 2005/1958. Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and extent
  2. 2Amendment of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007
  3. 3Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation: general)
  4. 4Substitution of regulation 5 (interpretation: exempt waste operation)
  5. 5Amendment of regulation 22 (revocation of an environmental permit: general)
  6. 6Amendment of regulation 38 (offences)
  7. 7Substitution of regulation 68 (further provision in relation to waste)
  8. 8Insertion of regulation 71B (transitional provision: exempt waste operations)
  9. 9Amendment of Schedule 1 (activities)
  10. 10Substitution of Schedule 2 (exempt waste operations: general)
  11. 11Substitution of Schedule 3 (descriptions: exempt waste operations and other operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply)
  12. 12Amendment of Schedule 19 (public registers)
  13. 13Amendments to the Environment Act 1995
  14. 14Consequential amendment to the Waste Management (England and Wales) Regulations 2006
  15. 15Consequential amendment to the Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009
  16. 16Savings
  17. Signature
  18. Schedule 1SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING (ENGLAND AND WALES) REGULATIONS 2007
  19. Schedule 2SCHEDULES 3 AND 3A TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING (ENGLAND AND WALES) REGULATIONS 2007
  20. Explanatory note