Regulation 5 Amendment of the requirements for advertising applications for consent to release

(1)

In paragraph (1) of regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations (Advertisement of application for consent to release) for the words “not less than fourteen days and not more than twenty-eight days after acknowledgement of receipt of that application is sent to him by the Secretary of State,”, there shall be substituted the words “not more than ten days after he sends that application to the Secretary of State,”.

(2)

In paragraph (3) of regulation 8 of the 1992 Regulations—

(a)

for the words “not less than fourteen days and not more than twenty-eight days after acknowledgement of receipt of that application is sent to him by the Secretary of State”, there shall be substituted the words “not more than ten days after he sends that application to the Secretary of State,”;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (a), for the words “the site of the proposed release,” there shall be substituted the words “any site of a proposed release specified in the application for a consent to release,”;

(c)

sub-paragraphs (b), (d), (e), and (g) shall be deleted; and

(d)

at the beginning of sub-paragraph (f) there shall be added the words “if the proposed release may have an impact on any controlled waters,”.