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

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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.

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