Regulation 2 Amendment of regulations

The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991^f1 shall be amended as follows.

In paragraphs 5, 13, 19 and 26 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations for “the date on which the application is first granted or refused” substitute “the determination date for that process”.

For paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations substitute—

“8

In this Part and subsequent provisions of this Schedule—

• “the determination date” for a prescribed process is—

  1. (a)

     in the case of a process for which an authorisation is granted, the date on which the enforcing authority grants it, whether in pursuance of the application or, on an appeal, of a direction to grant it;

  2. (b)

     in the case of a process for which an authorisation is refused, the date of the refusal or, on an appeal, of the affirmation of the refusal;

• “substantial change” has the same meaning as in section 10 of the Act.”.