The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

2007 transitional applications for grant of PPC permit, other than in relation to landfill

89.—(1) This regulation applies where, by the relevant time—

(a) an existing licence, other than a licence the whole or part of which authorises the operation of a landfill and the carrying on of any related activity, was the subject of an application to which regulation 71 of the 2007 Regulations applied; and

(b) the determination date had not been reached.

(2) On the coming into force of these Regulations—

(a) the application is taken to be an application for the grant of an environmental permit; and

(b) pending determination of the application, the licence has effect—

(i) as if it were an environmental permit, and

(ii) subject to any conditions that applied to it at the relevant time.

(3) If on the determination of the application an environmental permit is granted, the licence—

(a) becomes an environmental permit; and

(b) has effect subject to any conditions imposed on it under these Regulations.

(4) If the application is withdrawn, or on the determination of the application an environmental permit is not granted, the licence no longer has effect.