Environmental Protection (Authorisation of Processes) (Determination Periods) (Amendment) Order 1994
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | SI 1994/2847 |
Year | 1994 |
1994 No. 2847
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
The Environmental Protection (Authorisation of Processes) (Determination Periods) (Amendment) Order 1994
Made 6th November 1994
Laid before Parliament 10th November 1994
Coming into force 1st December 1994
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by paragraph 5(3) of Schedule 1 to the Environmental Protection Act 19901and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Authorisation of Processes) (Determination Periods) (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st December 1994.
Extension of period for consideration of applications by local authorities
2.—(1) Article 3 of the Environmental Protection (Authorisation of Processes) (Determination Periods) Order 19912shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (5), after the words “paragraph (2)(a) and (b) above” there shall be inserted the words “or paragraph (5A) below”.
(3) After paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—
“5A Subject to paragraph (6) below, in the case of an application for an authorisation to carry on a process subject to local control in respect of which paragraph 5, 6 or 7 of Schedule 6 to the Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 19943applies but which does not fall within paragraph (2)(a) and (b) above, for the period mentioned in paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act there shall be substituted the period of nine months beginning with the day on which the enforcing authority received the application or such longer period as it may agree with the applicant.”.
(4) In paragraph (6)—
(a)
(a) for the words “paragraph (2), (4) or (5)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (2), (4), (5) or (5A)”;
(b)
(b) for the words “paragraph (1), (3) and (5)” there shall be substituted the words “paragraph (1), (3), (5) and (5A)”.
Paul Beresford
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment
6th November 1994
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 3 of the Environmental Protection (Authorisation of Processes) (Determina– tion Periods) Order 1991 generally extends the period laid down in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 for enforcing...
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