{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-pollution-control-prescribed-processes-and-substances-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-pollution-control-prescribed-processes-and-substances-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/26",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-pollution-control-prescribed-processes-and-substances-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (date from which authorisation is required under Article 6 of the Order) shall be amended as follows–\n(a) at the beginning of paragraph 2 there shall be inserted, “Subject to paragraphs 2A and 2B,”;\n(b) the following paragraphs shall be inserted after that paragraph–\n“2A The prescribed date, in respect of an existing hazardous waste incineration plant, is–\n(a) where an application for authorisation as a Part A process is made on or before 31st December 1999, the determination date for that process; or\n(b) where no such application is made, 31st December 1999.\n2B The prescribed date, in respect of a new hazardous waste incineration plant, is 22nd February 1999.”; and\n(c) the following definitions shall be inserted immediately after the definition of “the determination date” in paragraph 7–\n“existing hazardous waste incineration plant” means a process described in paragraph (bb) of Part A of Section 5.1 of Schedule 1 which, immediately before 22nd February 1999–\n(i) was a work registered under section 2 or 7, as applicable, of the Alkali &c. Works Regulation Act 1906; or\n(ii) was not a prescribed process, but was operated in accordance with planning permission;\nand which, in either case, was first so registered or operated, as the case may be, before 31st December 1996;\n“new hazardous waste incineration plant” means a process described in paragraph (bb) of Part A of Section 5.1 of Schedule 1 which, immediately before 22nd February 1999–\n(i) was a work registered under section 2 or 7, as applicable, of the Alkali &c. Works Regulation Act 1906; or\n(ii) was not a prescribed process, but was operated in accordance with planning permission;\nand which, in either case, was first so registered or operated, as the case may be, on or after 31st December 1996; and\n“planning permission” means planning permission granted under the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1906 c. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1220 (N.I. 11)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/26/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:21:26.185440+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."
}