SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 15 Consequential and Minor Amendments of Enactments
Exclusion of Alkali Works Act for prescribed processes
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In the M1Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906 there shall be inserted, after section 2, the following section—
2A Relation to Environmental Protection Act 1990, Part I.
1
The preceding provisions of this Part of this Act shall not apply to any process which is a prescribed process as from the date which is the determination date for that process.
2
The “determination date” for a prescribed process is—
a
in the case of a process for which an authorisation is granted, the date on which the enforcing authority grants it, whether in pursuance of the application or, on an appeal, of a direction to grant it;
b
in the case of a process for which an authorisation is refused, the date of the refusal or, on an appeal, of the affirmation of the refusal.
3
In this section “authorisation”, “enforcing authority” and “prescribed process” have the meaning given in section 1 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and the reference to an appeal is a reference to an appeal under section 15 of that Act.
and, immediately before section 25, as section 24A, a section in the same terms as the section 2A inserted after section 2.