1998 No. 53 (C. 2)
INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION CONTROL
The Industrial Pollution Control (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998
Made 25th February 1998

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
S.I.1997/2777 (N.I. 18)

1 Citation
This Order may be cited as the Industrial Pollution Control (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998.

2 Appointed Day
The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule and which relate to the subject matter specified in column 2 thereof shall be 2nd March 1998.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
R. W. Rogers Assistant Secretary 25th February 1998.
SCHEDULE
Provisions of the Order	Subject matter of provisions
Article 1	Title and commencement
Article 2	Interpretation
Article 3	Prescribed processes and prescribed substances
Article 4	Emission etc. limits and quality objectives
Article 5	Discharge and scope of functions
Article 6	Authorisations: general provisions
Article 7	Conditions of authorisations
Article 8	Fees and charges for authorisations
Article 9	Transfer of authorisations
Article 10	Variation of authorisations by enforcing authority
Article 11	Variation of conditions etc: applications by holders of authorisations
Article 12	Revocation of authorisation
Article 13	Enforcement notices
Article 14	Prohibition notices
Article 15	Appeals as respects authorisations and against variation, enforcement and prohibition notices
Article 16	Appointment of chief inspector and other inspectors
Article 17	Powers of inspectors and others
Article 18	Power to deal with cause of imminent danger of serious pollution, etc.
Article 19	Obtaining of information from persons and authorities
Article 20	Public registers of information
Article 21	Exclusion from registers of information affecting national security
Article 22	Exclusion from registers of certain confidential information
Article 23	Offences
Article 24	Enforcement by High Court
Article 25	Evidence in connection with certain pollution offences
Article 26	Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
Article 27	Power of chief inspector to remedy harm
Article 28	Authorisations and other statutory controls
Article 29	Disclosure of information
Article 30	Power to give effect to Community and other international obligations etc.
Article 31	Application to Crown
Article 32	Offences by bodies corporate
Article 33	Offences due to fault of others
Article 34	Regulations, orders and directions
Article 35 so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedules 4 and 5 of the Order specified below	Amendments and repeals
Schedule 1	Authorisations for processes: supplementary provisions
Schedule 2	Appeals and matters referred to the Planning Appeals Commission
Schedule 3	Supplemental provisions with respect to powers of entry
Schedule 4	Consequential Amendments
Paragraphs 1-12
Paragraph 14
In Schedule 5	Repeals
The entry relative to the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972
The entry relative to the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 insofar as it refers to the words “or the place at which he does so is a work registered in pursuance of section 9 of the Alkali Act” in Article 56(1)
The entry relative to Schedule 3 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 insofar as it repeals paragraphs 32 to 33
Article 2
1972 c. 5 (N.I.)
S.I.1978/1049 (N.I. 19)
S.I.1985/1028 (N.I. 15)

(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order brings certain provisions of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 into operation on 2nd March 1998, which makes provision for integrated pollution control and air pollution control systems to control the release of polluting emissions from industrial plant processes in Northern Ireland.