1990 No. 1629
The Trade Effluents (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 1990
Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Secretary of State for the Environment and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 74 and 185(2) of the Water Act 19891 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Effluents (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 31st August 1990.
Amendment of Regulations2
1
The Trade Effluents (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 19892 shall be amended as follows—
2
In regulation 5(1), at the end insert “or to vary any agreement having effect as if entered into by the undertaker under section 7 of that Act (agreements for the reception and disposal of trade effluent)”.
3
In regulation 5(2), after “the consent” in both places insert “or agreement” and at the end insert “or deriving from a process of a description mentioned in Schedule 2 to these Regulations where either asbestos or chloroform would be present in the effluent in a concentration greater than the background concentration”.
4
In regulation 5(4)(b), for “unless” substitute “or agreement before” and for “paragraph 3(2)(c)” substitute “paragraph 3”.
5
In Schedule 1, after “Pentachlorophenol” insert “and its compounds”.
6
In Schedule 2—
a
omit “Any industrial process in which cooling waters or effluents are chlorinated”; and
b
at the end, add “Any industrial process involving the use in any 12 month period of more than 100 kilograms of the product resulting from the crushing of asbestos ore”.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)