The Industrial Pollution Control (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Advertisements

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4) and regulation 7, an advertisement—

(a) by an applicant under paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1; or

(b) by the holder of an authorisation under paragraph 6(2) or 7(2) of Schedule 1

shall be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the prescribed process will be carried on and also, in the case of a prescribed process designated for integrated central control, in the Belfast Gazette.

(2) Subject to regulation 8(5)(b), any such advertisement as is mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be published within a period of 28 days beginning 14 days after—

(a) in the case of an advertisement under paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1, the day on which the application for an authorisation is made;

(b) in the case of an advertisement under paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 1, the day on which the holder of the authorisation is notified in accordance with Article 10(5) of the Order;

(c) in the case of an advertisement under paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 1, the day on which the application for a variation is made.

(3) Subject to regulation 8(4), any such advertisement shall—

(a) state the name of the applicant or, as the case may be, of the holder of the authorisation;

(b) except in the case of a prescribed process which will be carried on by means of mobile plant, give the address of the premises on which the prescribed process will be carried on;

(c) describe briefly the prescribed process;

(d) state where any register which contains particulars of the application or of the action to be taken may be inspected and that it may be inspected free of charge; and

(e) explain that any person may make representations in writing to the enforcing authority within the period of 42 days beginning with the date of the advertisement and give the authority’s address;

(f) explain that any such representations made by any person will be entered in a public register unless that person requests in writing that they should not be so placed, and that where such a request is made there will be included in the register a statement indicating only that representations have been made which have been the subject of such a request.

(4) The requirement in paragraph (1) of this regulation to publish an advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the prescribed process will be carried on does not apply in relation to any prescribed process which will be carried on by means of mobile plant.