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Amendment of the Industrial Pollution Control (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

6.  In the Industrial Pollution Control (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(1)—

(a)in paragraph (1) of regulation 5 (consultation), after the words “Subject to regulations 7 and 8(2)” there shall be inserted “and except in the case of a prescribed process to which regulation 7A applies,”;

(b)in paragraph (1) of regulation 6 (advertisements), for the words “regulation 7” there shall be substituted “regulations 7 and 7A,”; and

(c)after regulation 7 there shall be inserted the following regulation—

Exemption for service stations

7A.(1) This regulation applies to a prescribed process falling within Part C of Section 1.4 in Chapter I of Schedule 1 to the Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998.

(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 Order 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..