The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) (Petrol Vapour Recovery) Regulations 1996

Amendment of the Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991

2.  In the Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991(1)—

(a) in paragraph (1) of regulation 4 (consultation), after the words “Subject to regulations 6 and 7(2) below,” there shall be inserted the words “and except in the case of a prescribed process to which regulation 6A below applies,”;

(b) after paragraph (1) of regulation 4 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) The petroleum licensing authority in whose area the process will be carried on (if it is not the enforcing authority) is hereby prescribed as a person to be consulted under paragraph 2(1), 6(2) or 7(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act in the case of a prescribed process to which regulation 6A below applies, except where the enforcing authority has, within the period specified in paragraph (2) below, notified that authority that the application has been made or, as the case may be, that notification has been given pursuant to section 10(5) of the 1990 Act.”;

(c) at the end of regulation 4 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(8) In paragraph (1A) above “petroleum licensing authority” means a local authority empowered to grant petroleum spirit licences under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928(2).”;

(d) in paragraph (1) of regulation 5 (advertisements), for the words “regulation 6” there shall be substituted the words “regulations 6 and 6A”;

(e) after regulation 6 there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Exemption for service stations

6A.— (1) This regulation applies to a prescribed process falling within paragraph (b) of Part B of Section 1.4 of Schedule 1 to the Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991.

(2) The following requirements shall not apply in relation to a process to which this regulation applies—

(a) the requirement in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act to advertise an application for an authorisation;

(b) the requirement in paragraph 6(2) of that Schedule to advertise the action to be taken by the holder of an authorisation in consequence of a variation;

(c) the requirement in paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule to advertise an application for a variation of an authorisation.”.

(1)

S.I. 1991/507, amended by S.I. 1991/836, 1994/1271, 1996/667, 979.

(2)

1928 c. 32.