Regulation 3 Determination of enforcing authority

(1)

The enforcing authority for any prescribed process shall be determined by reference to the prescribed substances released from the process and the environmental medium into which they are released so that—

(a)

the chief inspector shall be the enforcing authority where the prescribed process gives rise to—

(i)

release into the air of a Schedule 4 substance, whether or not it gives rise also to release of a prescribed substance into either land or water or both; or

(ii)

release into land of a Schedule 6 substance, whether or not it gives rise also to release into the air of a Schedule 4 substance, but not if it gives rise also to release into water of a Schedule 5 substance and no release into the air of a Schedule 4 substance; and

(b)

a river purification authority shall be the enforcing authority where the prescribed process gives rise to release into water of a Schedule 5 substance, whether or not it gives rise also to release into land of a Schedule 6 substance but not if it gives rise also to release into the air of a Schedule 4 substance.

(2)

Where the functions conferred or imposed by Part I of the Act are determined under paragraph (1)(b) to be the functions of a river purification authority, they shall be exercisable by the river purification authority in whose area the prescribed process is, is to be, has been, or was to have been, carried on, as the case may be.