Explanatory note

This Order varies the period available to enforcing authorities to consider applications under the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (“the 1997 Order”) for authorisation to carry on a prescribed process.

Article 3 varies the period for consideration of existing Part A and Part B processes from six months to nine months.

Article 4 makes provision in relation to processes for which district council authorisation is required. The determination period is varied from six months to two months for new small heating installations using waste or recovered oil generated on the same premises, such as heaters in commercial garages using oil drained from vehicles there.

Where the exclusion from public registers of information affecting national security or certain confidential information is to be considered, Article 5 provides for the period laid down in the 1997 Order (9 months for all existing Part A and Part B process, 2 months for small waste oil burners, and 6 months for the remaining processes), beginning with the day the enforcing authority receives the application, to begin when that consideration is completed.