The Control of Pollution (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1996

Exemption from advertising requirements

4.  The Agency may determine that an application is not required to be advertised if it appears to the Agency that it is appropriate to dispense with advertising the application because—

(a) section 191A of the Water Resources Act 1991 (exclusion from registers of information affecting national security) applies; or

(b) the Agency considers that the activities which are the subject matter of the application are unlikely to have an appreciable effect on controlled waters in the locality in which those activities are proposed to be carried on; or

(c) the application is made before 1st April 1997 and it relates to discharges of a kind which the applicant, or a predecessor of his, was authorised to make by virtue of a consent to which paragraph 21 of Schedule 23 to the Environment Act 1995 applied but notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii) of that paragraph was not given by him or his predecessor,

and, in any case where the Agency so determines, the application shall be exempt from the requirements of section 90A(1)(b) of, or, as the case may be, paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 10 to, the Water Resources Act 1991 (requirement to advertise applications).