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The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012
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- 2012 No. 360
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62.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the Scottish Ministers may make plans for—
(a)the setting of limits on the total amount, or the total amount in any period, of emissions from all or any description of source within Scotland,
(b)the allocation of quotas relating to such emissions.
(2) Where the Scottish Ministers allocate a quota in a plan made under paragraph (1), they may also make a scheme for the trading or other transfer of the quota so allocated.
(3) This regulation does not apply to an emission plan [F1or to the Transitional National Plan ].
(4) In this regulation—
(a)“emission” means the direct or indirect release of any substance from individual or diffuse sources into the air, water or land, F2...
(b)“emission plan” has the meaning given in the Large Combustion Plants (National Emission Reduction Plan) Regulations 2007 M1 [F3and ]
[F4(c)“Transitional National Plan” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 62(3) inserted (temp. until 31.10.2020) (31.12.2015) by The Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1973), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(a)
F2Word in reg. 62(4)(a) omitted (temp. until 31.10.2020) (31.12.2015) by virtue of The Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1973), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b)(i)
F3Word in reg. 62(4)(b) inserted (temp. until 31.10.2020) (31.12.2015) by The Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1973), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b)(ii)
F4Reg. 62(4)(c) inserted (temp. until 31.10.2020) (31.12.2015) by The Large Combustion Plants (Transitional National Plan) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1973), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b)(iii)
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M1S.I. 2007/2325; as amended by S.I. 2007/3476 and 3538 and 2010/675.
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