2012 No. 630
Environmental Protection, England And Wales
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012
Made 28th February 2012
Laid before Parliament 5th March 2012
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales 5th March 2012
Coming into force 6th April 2012

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 7(9) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999.
Regulations revoked (except regs. 1-3, 19(1)(2), 20, 21) (1.1.2017) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1154), reg. 1(1), Sch. 28 (with regs. 1(3), 77-79, Sch. 4)
1999 c. 24. Paragraph 9A of Schedule 1 was inserted by S.I. 2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 2(2)(a). Paragraph 21A was inserted by section 38 of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c. 33). Paragraph 24 was amended by S.I. 2005/925, Schedule 6, paragraph 2(2)(b). Paragraph 25 was amended by section 105(1)(a) and (b) of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16). Functions of the Secretary of State under section 2 (except in relation to offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation), so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1958). Those functions were then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, have in accordance with section 2(4) of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 consulted—
The requirement in that section to consult the bodies and persons mentioned, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, was transferred from the Secretary of State to the National Assembly for Wales by article 3 of S.I. 2005/1958. The requirement was then transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).
(a) the Environment Agency;
(b) such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses as they consider appropriate; and
(c) such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.
The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, make these Regulations.