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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-commencement-no-8-and-saving-provisions-order-1996/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2909",
  "legislation_title": "The Environment Act 1995 (Commencement No. 8 and Saving Provisions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environment-act-1995-commencement-no-8-and-saving-provisions-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Saving provisions",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Order shall affect—\n(a) the application of—\n(i) paragraphs 1 to 5 of Schedule 10 to the Water Resources Act 1991 as originally enacted or as modified by the Control of Pollution (Discharges by the National Rivers Authority) Regulations 1989; and\n(ii) regulations 2 to 6 of the Control of Pollution (Consents for Discharges etc.) (Secretary of State Functions) Regulations 1989,\nin relation to any application made under paragraph 1 of that Schedule (applications for discharge consents) before 31st December 1996 or any consent given under paragraph 5 of that Schedule (discharge consents granted without applications) before that date;\n(b) the application of section 91 of the Water Resources Act 1991 as originally enacted (appeals in respect of consents under Chapter II of Part III of that Act), and regulations 2 and 7 of the Control of Pollution (Consents for Discharges etc.) (Secretary of State Functions) Regulations 1989, in relation to any appeal under that section made in relation to a decision taken before 31st December 1996;\n(c) the power to amend or revoke any of the regulations mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above.\n(2) Paragraph (1)(a) above shall not apply in relation to an application made under paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Water Resources Act 1991 before 31st December 1996 if—\n(a) the application relates to discharges of a kind which the applicant, or a predecessor of his, was authorised to make by virtue of a consent to which paragraph 21 of Schedule 23 to the Environment Act 1995 (transitional provisions in relation to discharge consents) applied; and\n(b) notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii) of that paragraph was not given by him or his predecessor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1157; relevant amendments were made by paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 2 to the Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60) and paragraph 233 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/1151; see previous footnote for relevant amendments."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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