Environmental Protection Act 1990

2 (1) Section 2 (appropriate Minister to be hazardous substances authority for land used or to be used by statutory undertakers) shall be omitted.

(2) In section 7(3), for the words from “means” to “with” in the third place it occurs there shall be substituted the words “means consultations with the Health and Safety Executive and with”.

(3) In section 10(2), for the words from the beginning to “3” there shall be substituted the words “A hazardous substances authority”.

(4) In section 28(1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), for the words following the word “consent” there shall be substituted the words “made to that authority;

(aa) to applications under section 17(1) made to that authority;”; and

(b) after paragraph (d), there shall be inserted the following words—

“; and every such register shall also contain such information as may be prescribed as to the manner in which applications for hazardous substances consent have been dealt with.”

(5) In section 29, in subsection (3) and (4), for the words “appropriate body” there shall be substituted the words “Health and Safety Executive”.

(6) In section 38(5) for the words “1 to 3” there shall be substituted “1, 3”.

(7) In section 39(1), in the definition of “hazardous substances authority”, for the word “to”, in the second place it occurs, there shall be inserted the word “and”.