The Air Quality (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Air Quality (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(2) These regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of the Principal Regulations

2.—(1) The Air Quality (Scotland) Regulations 2000(1) are amended as follows.

(2) Regulation 3 (relevant periods) is renumbered as regulation 3(1).

(3) In regulation 3(1)–

(a) after “shall” there is inserted–

• “, subject to paragraph (2) below,”; and

(b) at the end there is inserted–

“(2) The relevant period for the purposes of Part IV of the 1995 Act in relation to an air quality objective prescribed or amended by the Air Quality (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002 shall be the period beginning with the date on which those regulations come into force.”.

(4) In the table in the Schedule to the Regulations (air quality objectives table)–

(a) after the entry numbered 1 relating to Benzene there is inserted–

“1A

Benzene

3.25 micrograms per cubic metre or less, when expressed as a running annual mean

31st December 2010”;

(b) in the entry numbered 3 relating to Carbon Monoxide in the second column (Air Quality Objectives) for “11.6” there is substituted “10”;

(c) after the entry numbered 8 relating to PM10 there is inserted–

“8A

PM10

50 micrograms per cubic metre or less when expressed as a 24 hour mean, not to be exceeded more than 7 times a year

31st December 2010”; and

(d) after the entry numbered 9 relating to PM10 there is inserted–

“9A

PM10

18 micrograms per cubic metre or less, when expressed as an annual mean

31st December 2010”.

ALLAN WILSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

11th June 2002