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26.—(1) On the coming into force of these Regulations—
(a)an authorisation granted under regulation 17(2) of the 2010 Regulations which is in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations is taken to be an authorisation granted under regulation 19(2) of these Regulations;
(b)a second authorisation granted under regulation 17(9) of the 2010 Regulations which is in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations is taken to be a second authorisation granted under regulation 19(9) of these Regulations;
(c)a notice served under regulation 18 of the 2010 Regulations which is in force immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations (“an existing notice”) is taken to be a notice served under regulation 20 of these Regulations.
(2) An appeal may be made under regulation 21(1) of these Regulations against an existing notice if, on the date these Regulations come into force, the time for making an appeal under regulation 19(1) of the 2010 Regulations had not expired.
(3) A local authority which has—
(a)reduced the frequency of sampling for a parameter under paragraph 2(2) in Part 1 of Schedule 2 (monitoring) to the 2010 Regulations, or
(b)excluded a parameter from audit monitoring under paragraph 3(3) in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the 2010 Regulations,
must upon the coming into force of these Regulations bring any such reduction or exclusion to an end, and instead begin to monitor in accordance with the provision made in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
(4) A local authority may rely upon any data collected in the 36 month period ending with the day on which these Regulations come into force to justify any variation in monitoring under Part 4 of Schedule 2.
(5) Table 2 (prescribed performance characteristics for methods of analysis) in Schedule 4 remains in force until 23:59 on 31 December 2019 following which it is revoked for all purposes.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 26 in force at 20.11.2017, see reg. 1