LegalizeThe Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Made: 28th February 2012
Laid before Parliament: 5th March 2012
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 5th March 2012
Coming into force: 6th April 2012
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PART 1 — General
Citation and commencement
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Interpretation
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PART 2 — Amendments to the principal Regulations
Regulation 2 (interpretation: general)
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Regulation 17 (single site permits etc)
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Regulation 19 (subsistence of an environmental permit)
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Regulation 20 (variation of an environmental permit)
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Regulation 21 (transfer of an environmental permit)
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Regulation 60 (power to require the provision of information)
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New Chapter 1A in Part 7 (death of sole operator)
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Regulation 109 (repeals)
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Regulation 110 (review)
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Part 2 of Schedule 1 (activities)
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Part 1 of Schedule 3 (exempt facilities: exempt waste operations)
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Schedule 5 (environmental permits)
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Schedule 10 (landfill)
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Schedule 23 (radioactive substances activities)
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PART 3 — Consequential and other amendments
Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008
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The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations 2009
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The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009
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Infrastructure Planning (Miscellaneous Prescribed Provisions) Regulations 2010
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Mercury Export and Data (Enforcement) Regulations 2010
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Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010
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Signed
Taylor of Holbeach — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 16th February 2012
John Griffiths — Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development — one of the Welsh Ministers — 28th February 2012
Explanatory note
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Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1999 c. 24. Paragraph 9A of Schedule 1 was inserted by S.I. 2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 2(2)(a). Paragraph 21A was inserted by section 38 of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c. 33). Paragraph 24 was amended by S.I.2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 2(2)(b). Paragraph 25 was amended by section105(1)(a) and (b) of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16). Functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 (except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article3 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2005 (S.I.2005/1958). Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
[^f00002]: The requirement in that section to consult the bodies and persons mentioned, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, was transferred from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales by article3 of S.I.2005/1958. The requirement was then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
[^f00003]: S.I. 2010/675; a relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2011/2043.
[^f00011]: S.I. 2009/995 (W. 81), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
[^f00012]: S.I. 2010/105.
[^f00013]: S.I. 2010/265.
Editorial notes
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