http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2016/475

F1SCHEDULE 1Amendment of Schedule 3 to the Principal Regulations

Regulation 24

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

Regulations revoked in part (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 28 (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)

PART 4Exempt flood risk activities: descriptions and conditions
General and interpretation1
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Electrical cable services2
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Service crossings below the bed of a main river3
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Service crossings attached to the outside of existing structures over a main river4
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Footbridges5
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Temporary scaffolding in England6
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Temporary dewatering in England7
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Maintenance of raised river or sea defences8
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Maintenance of structures within the channel of a main river9
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Drinking bays10
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Access platforms11
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Outfalls12
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Repair and protection of banks using natural materials13
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Repair of bank slips and erosion14
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Channel habitat structures made of natural materials15
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Rafts for surveys16
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Gravel-cleaning for fish-spawning beds17
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Placement of stones or logs in a main river in England for habitat enhancement18
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Eel pass devices19
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Fish passage notches20
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Removal of silt, sand and other material in England21
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Removal of silt and sand adjacent to in-river structures in England22
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Dredging of man-made ditches, land drains, agricultural drains and previously straightened watercourses in England23
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Dredging of any main river in England24
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Excavation of scrapes and shallow wetland features25
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Raised flood defences in England26
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Bankside wildlife refuge structures27
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Improvement works for tracks and paths28
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F1SCHEDULE 2Insertion of Schedule 23ZA into the Principal Regulations

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SCHEDULE 3Consequential amendments etc.

Regulation 29

PART 1Public General Acts

Highways Act 19801

After section 339(1) of the Highways Act 198041 insert—

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Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of an activity which is a flood risk activity within the meaning of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675).

Water Resources Act 19912

In section 221(1)42 of the 1991 Act, in the definition of “flood defence functions”—

a

at the end of paragraph (b) omit “and”;

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after paragraph (c) insert—

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its functions with respect to securing the drainage of land or the management of flood risk contained in regulations made under section 61 of the Water Act 201443; and
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any other function of the appropriate agency under any provision of this Act or the 1995 Act so far as it relates to a function falling within paragraph (d);

Environment Act 19953

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The Environment Act 199544 is amended as follows.

2

In section 56(1)45, in the definition of “environmental licence”, for paragraph (aa) substitute—

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a permit granted by the appropriate agency under—
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regulations made under section 2 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 199946, other than regulations made for the purpose of implementing the EUETS Directive,
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regulations made under section 61 of the Water Act 2014.

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In section 108—

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in subsection (1)—

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in paragraph (a), after the words “pollution control enactments” insert “or flood risk activity enactments”;

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in paragraph (b), after the words “pollution control functions” insert “or flood risk activity functions”;

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in subsection (4)—

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for paragraph (g) substitute—

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in the case of any article or substance found in or on any premises which the person has power to enter, being an article or substance which appears to that person to have caused or to be likely to cause—
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pollution of the environment,
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harm to the environment,
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flooding,
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harm to human health, or
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a detrimental impact on drainage,
to cause it to be dismantled or subjected to any process or test (but not so as to damage or destroy it, unless that is necessary);

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in paragraph (h)(iii), after the words “pollution control enactments” insert “or flood risk activity enactments”;

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in paragraph (k)(i), after the words “pollution control enactments” insert “or flood risk activity enactments”;

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in subsection (5), after the words “pollution control enactments” insert “or flood risk activity enactments”;

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in subsection (15)—

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for the definition of “emergency” substitute—

“emergency” means a case in which it appears to the authorised person in question—
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that there is an immediate risk of serious harm or that circumstances exist which are likely to endanger life or health, and
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that immediate entry to any premises is necessary to verify the existence of that risk or those circumstances or to ascertain the cause of that risk or those circumstances or to effect a remedy,
and for this purpose “serious harm” means—
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serious pollution of the environment,
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serious harm to the environment,
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serious flooding,
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serious harm to human health, or
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a serious detrimental impact on drainage;

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after the definition of “English waste collection authority”47 insert—

“flood risk activity enactment”, in relation to an enforcing authority, means an enactment relating to the flood risk activity functions of that authority;
“flood risk activity functions”, in relation to the Agency or the Natural Resources Body for Wales, means the functions relating to flood risk activities conferred or imposed on it by or under regulations made under section 61 of the Water Act 2014;

PART 2Subordinate legislation

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Any requirement of a byelaw made by the regulator before 6th April 2016 under section 210(1) of, and paragraph 5 of Schedule 25 to, the 1991 Act48 for a person to obtain the consent of the regulator ceases to apply.