The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000

Public registers of information

29.—(1) Subject to regulations 30 and 31 and to paragraphs 2 to 5 of Schedule 9, it shall be the duty of each regulator, as respects installations or mobile plant for which it is the regulator, to maintain a register containing the particulars described in paragraph 1 of that Schedule.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the register maintained by a local authority regulator shall also contain any particulars contained in any register maintained by the Environment Agency relating to the operation of an installation or Part A mobile plant in the area of the local authority regulator in relation to which the Environment Agency has functions under these Regulations.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to port health authorities but each local authority regulator whose area adjoins that of a port health authority shall include in its register the information that it would have had to include under paragraph (2) in relation to the operation of installations and Part A mobile plant in the area of the port health authority if the port health authority had not been constituted.

(4) The Environment Agency shall furnish each local authority regulator with the particulars which are necessary to enable it to discharge its duty under paragraphs (2) and (3).

(5) Where information of any description is excluded from any register by virtue of regulation 31, a statement shall be entered in the register indicating the existence of information of that description.

(6) It shall be the duty of each regulator—

(a) to secure that the registers maintained by them under this regulation are available, at all reasonable times, for inspection by the public free of charge; and

(b) to afford to members of the public facilities for obtaining copies of entries, on payment of reasonable charges.

(7) Registers under this regulation may be kept in any form.