The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999

Functions of competent authority in relation to the safety report

17.—(1) The competent authority shall within a reasonable period of time of receiving a safety report—

(a) communicate the conclusions of its examination of the report to the operator of the establishment concerned; or

(b) prohibit the operation or bringing into operation of the establishment or installation concerned or any part thereof in accordance with regulation 18.

(2) Where, pursuant to regulation 7(10), a report has been sent to the competent authority in parts, paragraph 17(1)(a) shall apply—

(a) to each part of the report, as if the reference to communicating the conclusions of the examination were a reference to communicating provisional conclusions;

(b) to all parts of the report, as if the reference to communicating the conclusions of the examination within a reasonable period of time of receiving a safety report were a reference to communicating, within a reasonable period of time of receiving the last part, the examination of the parts as a whole having regard, in particular, to the inter-relationship between different industrial activities in the establishment.