The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

Interpretation: regulated facility and class of regulated facility

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

8.—(1) In these Regulations, “regulated facility” means any of the following—

(a)an installation,

(b)mobile plant,

(c)a waste operation,

(d)a mining waste operation,

(e)a radioactive substances activity,

(f)a water discharge activity,

(g)a groundwater activity.

(2) But the following are not regulated facilities—

(a)an exempt facility,

(b)an excluded waste operation,

(c)the disposal or recovery of household waste from a domestic property within the curtilage of that property by a person other than an establishment or undertaking.

(3) In these Regulations, a reference to a class of regulated facility is a reference to a class in paragraph (1).

(4) A regulated facility of any of the following classes may be carried on as part of the operation of a regulated facility of another class—

(a)waste operation;

(b)mining waste operation;

(c)water discharge activity;

(d)groundwater activity.