{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012/schedule-4/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3038",
  "legislation_title": "The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greenhouse-gas-emissions-trading-scheme-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Applications for permits",
  "text": "(1) An application for a permit must contain—\n(a) as well as the address for service required under Schedule 3, any address to which correspondence relating to the application should be sent; and (if the applicant is a body corporate)—\n(i) its registered number and the postal address of its registered or principal office, and\n(ii) if that body corporate is a subsidiary of a holding company within the meaning of section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006 , the name of the holding company (other than a holding company which is itself a subsidiary) and the postal address of its registered or principal office;\n(b) in relation to the site of the installation—\n(i) the postal address and national grid reference of the site (or equivalent information identifying the installation and its location);\n(ii) a description of the site and the location of the installation on it; and\n(iii) the name of any local authority in whose area the site is situated;\n(c) a description of the installation, including a description of—\n(i) the regulated activities to be carried out at the installation and the specified emissions from those activities; and\n(ii) any directly associated activities (within Article 3(e) of the Directive) that are also to be carried out;\n(d) a description of the raw and auxiliary materials used in carrying out regulated activities in the installation, the use of which is likely to lead to specified emissions;\n(e) a description of the sources of specified emissions from the regulated activities carried out in the installation;\n(f) a monitoring plan submitted under Article 12 of the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018, together with—\n(i) the supporting documents under Article 12(1) of that Regulation;\n(ii) the summary of a procedure ensuring fulfilment of the requirements referred to in Article 12(3)(a) and (b) of that Regulation; and\n(iii) the uncertainty assessment carried out under Article 28(1)(a) of that Regulation;\n(g) a description, including the reference number, of any environmental licence issued in relation to the installation;\n(h) any additional information which the applicant wishes the regulator to take into account in considering the application; and\n(i) a non-technical summary of the information referred to in paragraphs (c) to (h).\n(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(g), “environmental licence” means—\n(a) an authorisation under ... the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 ; or\n(b) a permit under—\n(i) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iv) the Northern Ireland Regulations.\n(3) Where an application is for a permit in respect of more than one installation, the application must contain the information required by sub-paragraph (1) in respect of each installation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked in so far as they continue to apply in relation to the UK Registry (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 inserted (1.1.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1440), regs. 1(4), 28 (with reg. 31(2)) (as amended by S.I. 2020/18, regs. 1, 11(4) and S.I. 2020/1369, regs. 1(2), 44(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(a) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 39(a)(i) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(b)(i)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 39(a)(ii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(b)(iii) and word omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Withdrawal Agreement) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1369), regs. 1(2), 39(a)(ii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2006 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1997 No. 2777 (N.I. 18)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3038/schedule/4/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:11:20.029288+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}