SCHEDULE 6U.K.Consequential Amendments

PART 2E+WSubordinate Legislation

Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016E+W

73.—(1) The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 M1 are amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 3 (exempt facilities and waste operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply: descriptions and conditions)—

(a)in Part 2 (exempt water discharge activities: descriptions and conditions), in sub-paragraph (3)(a) of paragraph 1 (vegetation management activities), for “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010” substitute “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017”;

(b)in Part 3 (exempt groundwater discharge activities: descriptions and conditions), in sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 5 (open-loop ground source heating and cooling systems), in paragraph (a) of the definition of “groundwater-fed wetland”, for “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010” substitute “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017”;

(c)in Part 4 (exempt flood risk activities: descriptions and conditions), in sub-paragraph (4)(a) of paragraph 1 (general and interpretation), for “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010” substitute “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017”.

(3) In Schedule 10 (landfill), in sub-paragraph (2)(c)(i) of paragraph 2 (interpretation: general), for “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010” substitute “the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017”.

(4) In Part 2 of Schedule 29, omit paragraph 34 (Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010).

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