Regulation 7 Enforcing authority

Notwithstanding Regulation 3 of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1977^f1, and Regulation 2(3) of the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (Enforcement) Regulations 1979, the enforcing authority for the relevant statutory provisions in relation to any site at which there is an activity required to be notified under these Regulations or which is to be taken into account by virtue of Regulation 3(2), shall be the Executive.

After 1st February 1985, for cases where the quantity of any substance at a site on which there is an activity which is required to be notified under these Regulations is such that a licence is required under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 for the keeping of that substance, the Executive shall be the authority empowered to grant such a licence and to enforce any conditions attached to any such licence (whether granted by it or not); and that Act shall be modified accordingly.