Paragraph 4 Activities not requiring a permit, or requiring an environmental licence

This paragraph applies to an existing permit where the permit relates to activity that is not described in any Part A of Part 1 of Schedule 1 or in Schedule 2 to these Regulations (a “legacy permit”).

An operator holding a legacy permit is deemed to have applied on 7th January 2013 for any environmental licence that would otherwise be required for the activity described in the permit.

No fee or charge is payable by the operator to SEPA under any enactment or scheme in respect of such a deemed application.

A legacy permit is, so far as not revoked, to be treated as being revoked on 7th January 2014.

In this paragraph, “environmental licence” means a permit, licence or authorisation under any of—