2.—(1) The Trade Effluents (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1989(1) 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”.
S.I. 1989/1156