PART 7Miscellaneous provisions

Chapter 3Transitional provisions - former enactments

F1Previously exempt radioactive substances activities72B

1

Paragraph (3) applies to a person (“A”) who was carrying on an activity (“the continuing activity”) described in paragraph (2) immediately before 1st October 2011 and who continues to carry on the activity on or after that date.

2

The continuing activity referred to in paragraph (1) means an activity—

a

described in paragraph 11(2), (4) or (5) of Part 2 of Schedule 23; and

b

in respect of which, immediately before 1st October 2011, A was exempted under regulation 72 (as in force at that time) from the requirement to hold an environmental permit (“the existing exemption”).

3

Where this paragraph applies, the existing exemption continues to apply to A until the time set out in paragraph (4), subject to any conditions which applied to that exemption.

4

The time referred to in paragraph (3) is—

a

if A does not become exempt in respect of the continuing activity under a radioactive substances exemption before 1st April 2012, the end time set out in regulation 72C; or

b

if A does become so exempt, the time at which the exemption begins to apply.