The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

15.  In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, after paragraph 2A(1) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—

“2B.   Notwithstanding the rule set out in paragraph 2, where a process of reforming natural gas described in paragraph (a) of Part A of Section 1.1 of Schedule 1 is carried on as an inherent part of and primarily for the purpose of producing a feedstock for a process described in Part A of any Section of Chapter 4 of that Schedule (“the other process”), that reforming process shall be treated as part of the other process and not as a separate process.

2C.   Nothwithstanding the rule set out in paragraph 2, where the same person carries on at the same location two or more Part B processes described in the provisions of Schedule 1 mentioned in any one of the following sub-paragraphs, those processes shall be treated as requiring authorisation as a single process falling within Part B of the Section first mentioned in the relevant sub-paragraph—

(a) Section 2.1 and Section 2.2;

(b) Section 3.1 and Section 3.4;

(c) Section 3.6 and Section 3.4;

(d) Section 6.5 and Section 6.6;

(e) Section 6.7 and paragraph (e) of Part B of Section 1.3 insofar as it relates to any process for the burning of waste wood.”.

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Paragraph 2A was inserted by S.I. 1993/2405, regulation 3.