# The Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999, Regulation 4: Amendment of the principal Regulations


Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (date from which authorisation is required under Article 6 of the Order) shall be amended as follows–
(a) at the beginning of paragraph 2 there shall be inserted, “Subject to paragraphs 2A and 2B,”;
(b) the following paragraphs shall be inserted after that paragraph–
“2A The prescribed date, in respect of an existing hazardous waste incineration plant, is–
(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
(b) where no such application is made, 31st December 1999.
2B The prescribed date, in respect of a new hazardous waste incineration plant, is 22nd February 1999.”; and
(c) the following definitions shall be inserted immediately after the definition of “the determination date” in paragraph 7–
“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–
(i) was a work registered under section 2 or 7, as applicable, of the Alkali &c. Works Regulation Act 1906; or
(ii) was not a prescribed process, but was operated in accordance with planning permission;
and which, in either case, was first so registered or operated, as the case may be, before 31st December 1996;
“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–
(i) was a work registered under section 2 or 7, as applicable, of the Alkali &c. Works Regulation Act 1906; or
(ii) was not a prescribed process, but was operated in accordance with planning permission;
and which, in either case, was first so registered or operated, as the case may be, on or after 31st December 1996; and
“planning permission” means planning permission granted under the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/26/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-pollution-control-prescribed-processes-and-substances-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1999/regulation-4
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