SCHEDULE 21Consequential amendments

PART 2Subordinate legislation

The Groundwater Regulations 199839

1

The Groundwater Regulations 1998 M1 are amended (in relation to England and Wales) as follows.

2

In regulation 1(3), in the definition of “authorisation”, for sub-paragraphs (e) and (f) substitute—

e

an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007, except to the extent that it authorises the operation of a Part B activity within the meaning of those Regulations;

3

In regulation 3, for “the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000”, substitute “ the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 ”.