After regulation 3 of the Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 199867 insert–

“Exclusion of prescribed processes under control of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20033A.

(1)

Where a process which is being carried on under an authorisation requires a permit under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 authorising the carrying on of that process in an installation or by means of mobile plant and an application is made (or deemed to have been made) under those Regulations for the permit, that process shall, from the determination date for the installation or mobile plant, as the case may be, no longer be taken to fall within the description in Schedule 1.

(2)

Where a process which is not being carried on under an authorisation requires a permit under those Regulations authorising the carrying on of that process in an installation or by means of mobile plant, that process shall not be taken to fall within the description in Schedule 1 from the date on which the permit is required.

(3)

In this regulation, “installation” and “mobile plant” have the meaning given in regulation 2(2) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and “determination date” has the meaning given in Schedule 3 to those Regulations.”