The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

12.  In Part B of Section 6.7 (timber processes)(1) —

(a) for the words “12 month period” to “500 cubic metres” there shall be substituted the following words—

• “12 month period is likely to exceed—

  (i)

  10,000 cubic metres, in the case of works at which wood is sawed but at which wood is not subjected to any other relevant processes or is subjected only to relevant processes which are exempt processes; or

  (ii)

  1,000 cubic metres in any other case.”;

(b) before the definition of “throughput” there shall be inserted the following—

• “relevant processes other than sawing are “exempt processes” where, if no sawing were carried on at the works, the activities carried on there would be treated as not falling within this Part of this Section by virtue of regulation 4(2);”;

(1)

Part B of Section 6.7 was amended by S.I. 1992/614, Schedule 1, paragraph 11.