Paragraph 178 Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991

(1)

Regulation 4 of the Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991 M1 (consultation) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph (1)—

(a)

for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a)
the Health and Safety Executive, in all cases except—
(i)
where the prescribed process is to be carried on on a nuclear site, or
(ii)
in the case of a prescribed process designated for local control, where the enforcing authority has, within the period specified in paragraph (2) below, notified the Health and Safety Executive that the application has been made or, as the case may be, that notification has been given pursuant to section 10(5) of the 1990 Act;”

(b)

after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)
the Office for Nuclear Regulation in any case where the prescribed process is to be carried on on a nuclear site except, in the case of a prescribed process designated for local control, where the enforcing authority has, within the period specified in paragraph (2) below, notified the Office for Nuclear Regulation that the application has been made or, as the case may be, that notification has been given pursuant to section 10(5) of the 1990 Act;”.

(3)

After paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A)
In this regulation “nuclear site” has the meaning given in section 112(1) of the Energy Act 2013.”.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 1991/507. S.I. 1991/507 was revoked, in so far as it applied in relation to England and Wales, by S.I. 2007/3538. S.I. 1991/507, as it extends to Scotland, was amended by S.I. 1994/1271, S.I. 1996/667, S.I. 1996/2678, SSI 2000/62 and S.S.I. 2011/418. There are other amendments but none is relevant to this Order.