The Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Part C

(a)

Any process mentioned in Part A of this Section unless an exempt process or a process described in Part B of this Section—

(i)

where the process has the characteristics described in regulation 4(1)(b); but

(ii)

may release into the air a substance described in Schedule 4 or any offensive smell noticeable outside the premises on which the process is carried on.

(b)

breeding maggots in any case where 5 kg or more of animal or of vegetable matter or, in aggregate, of both are introduced into the process in any week.

In this Section—

• “animal” includes a bird or a fish; and

• “exempt process” means—

  (i)

  any process carried on on a farm or agricultural holding other than the manufacture of goods for sale;

  (ii)

  the manufacture or preparation of food or drink for human consumption but excluding—

  (a)

  the extraction, distillation or purification of animal or vegetable oil or fat otherwise than as a process incidental to the cooking of food for human consumption;

  (b)

  any process involving the use of green offal or the boiling of blood except the cooking of food (other than tripe) for human consumption;

  (c)

  the cooking of tripe for human consumption elsewhere than on premises on which it is to be consumed;

  (iii)

  the fleshing, cleaning and drying of pelts of fur-bearing mammals;

  (iv)

  any process carried on in connection with the operation of a knacker’s yard as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(1);

  (v)

  any process for the manufacture of soap not falling within a description in Part A or B of Section 4.2 of this Schedule;

  (vi)

  the storage of vegetable matter otherwise than as part of any prescribed process;

  (vii)

  the cleaning of shellfish shells;

  (viii)

  the manufacture of starch;

  (ix)

  the processing of animal or vegetable matter at premises for feeding a recognised pack of hounds registered under regulation 9 of the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993;

  (x)

  the salting of hides or skins, unless related to any other prescribed process;

  (xi)

  any process for composting animal or vegetable matter or a combination of both, except where that process is carried on for the purposes of cultivating mushrooms;

  (xii)

  any process for cleaning, and any related process for drying or dressing, seeds, bulbs, corms or tubers;

  (xiii)

  the drying of grain or pulses; or

  (xiv)

  any process for the production of cotton yarn from raw cotton or for the conversion of cotton yarn into cloth;

• “food” includes drink, articles and substances of no nutritional value which are used for human consumption, and articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food; and

• “green offal” means the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents.

(1)

S.R. 1993 No. 192