# The Industrial Pollution Control (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 S.R. 1998/53 · made 25 February 1998 This Order brings certain provisions of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 into operation on 2nd March 1998, which makes provision for integrated pollution control and air pollution control systems to control the release of polluting emissions from industrial plant processes in Northern Ireland. ## Introductory text INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION CONTROL Made 25th February 1998 The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: ## 1 Citation This Order may be cited as the Industrial Pollution Control (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998. ## 2 Appointed Day The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule and which relate to the subject matter specified in column 2 thereof shall be 2nd March 1998. ## Signature Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on L.S. R. W. Rogers Assistant Secretary 25th February 1998. ## Provisions of the Order Subject matter of provisions Article 1 Title and commencement Article 2 Interpretation Article 3 Prescribed processes and prescribed substances Article 4 Emission etc. limits and quality objectives Article 5 Discharge and scope of functions Article 6 Authorisations: general provisions Article 7 Conditions of authorisations Article 8 Fees and charges for authorisations Article 9 Transfer of authorisations Article 10 Variation of authorisations by enforcing authority Article 11 Variation of conditions etc: applications by holders of authorisations Article 12 Revocation of authorisation Article 13 Enforcement notices Article 14 Prohibition notices Article 15 Appeals as respects authorisations and against variation, enforcement and prohibition notices Article 16 Appointment of chief inspector and other inspectors Article 17 Powers of inspectors and others Article 18 Power to deal with cause of imminent danger of serious pollution, etc. Article 19 Obtaining of information from persons and authorities Article 20 Public registers of information Article 21 Exclusion from registers of information affecting national security Article 22 Exclusion from registers of certain confidential information Article 23 Offences Article 24 Enforcement by High Court Article 25 Evidence in connection with certain pollution offences Article 26 Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied Article 27 Power of chief inspector to remedy harm Article 28 Authorisations and other statutory controls Article 29 Disclosure of information Article 30 Power to give effect to Community and other international obligations etc. Article 31 Application to Crown Article 32 Offences by bodies corporate Article 33 Offences due to fault of others Article 34 Regulations, orders and directions Article 35 so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedules 4 and 5 of the Order specified below Amendments and repeals Schedule 1 Authorisations for processes: supplementary provisions Schedule 2 Appeals and matters referred to the Planning Appeals Commission Schedule 3 Supplemental provisions with respect to powers of entry Schedule 4 Consequential Amendments Paragraphs 1-12 Paragraph 14 In Schedule 5 Repeals The entry relative to the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 The entry relative to the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 insofar as it refers to the words “or the place at which he does so is a work registered in pursuance of section 9 of the Alkali Act” in Article 56(1) The entry relative to Schedule 3 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 insofar as it repeals paragraphs 32 to 33 ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order.) This Order brings certain provisions of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 into operation on 2nd March 1998, which makes provision for integrated pollution control and air pollution control systems to control the release of polluting emissions from industrial plant processes in Northern Ireland. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/53 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-pollution-control-1997-order-commencement-no-1-order-northern-ireland-1998 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.