SCHEDULE 10SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

PART 1General

2015 installations5

1

Regulation 11 applies to a 2015 installation—

a

from 7th July 2015, or

b

where an application for the purposes of paragraph (2) is not determined on or before that date, from the date the application is determined.

2

An application for a permit to operate a 2015 installation must be received by SEPA in the period specified in sub-paragraph (3).

3

The specified period for an activity described in Table 1 is—

a

for row 12, the period beginning on 7th January 2014 and ending on 7th April 2014,

b

for rows 3 to 8, the period beginning on 7th March 2014 and ending on 7th June 2014,

c

for row 11, the period beginning on 7th May 2014 and ending on 7th August 2014, and

d

for rows 1, 2, 9 and 10, the period beginning on 7th July 2014 and ending on 7th October 2014.

4

An application received by SEPA for a permit for a 2015 installation before the applicable specified period—

a

is deemed to have been received in that period, and

b

no other period of time provided for in respect of any such application under these Regulations begins to elapse until the start of that period.

5

In this paragraph, a reference to an application for a permit includes an application for a variation of a permit for an installation in respect of any other activity.

6

In this paragraph, “2015 installation” means an installation at which an activity described in column 1 of Table 1 is carried out on or before 6th January 2013, but does not include an installation at which such an activity is carried out if—

a

the activity is a Part A activity for the purposes of the 2000 Regulations, and

b

a permit has been granted under those Regulations in respect of the activity.

7

Where an activity falls within a description in more than one row of Table 1 it is to be regarded as falling only within the description that is most apt to describe the activity.

Table 1

Activity as described in Part 1 of Schedule 1

1. Section 1.2, Part A, paragraph (c)(ii)

2. Sections 4.1 to 4.6

3. Section 5.1

4. Section 5.3, Part A

5. Section 5.4, Part A, paragraph (a)(iii) to (v)

6. Section 5.4, Part A, paragraph (b)

7. Section 5.6, Part A, paragraph (a)

8. Section 5.6, Part A, paragraph (b)

9. Section 5.7, Part A

10. Section 6.1, Part A, paragraph (c)

11. Section 6.6, Part A

12. Section 6.8, Part A, paragraph (d)(ii) and (iii)