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The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

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CHAPTER 4Transitional provisions

Transitional provisions: general

77.—(1) Anything being done under the 2010 Regulations at the relevant time is taken as being done under these Regulations.

(2) Anything done under the 2010 Regulations continues to have effect but is taken to have been done under these Regulations on the date on which it was done under the 2010 Regulations, including (but not limited to) the following—

(a)an existing enforcement notice under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be an enforcement notice;

(b)an existing suspension notice under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be a suspension notice;

(c)an existing revocation notice under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be a revocation notice;

(d)an existing landfill closure notice under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be a landfill closure notice;

(e)an existing prohibition notice under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be a prohibition notice;

(f)an application for the grant, variation, transfer or surrender of an environmental permit make under the 2010 Regulations that has not been determined by the relevant time is taken to be made under these Regulations;

(g)a decision made, or deemed to have been made, by a regulator or appropriate authority under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be made under these Regulations;

(h)an existing direction given, or deemed to have been given, to a regulator by the appropriate authority under the 2010 Regulations is taken to be given under these Regulations;

(i)a notification given under the 2010 Regulations that has not taken effect by the relevant time is taken to be given under these Regulations;

(j)an appeal made under the 2010 Regulations that has not been determined by the relevant time is taken to be made under these Regulations, with the notice of appeal taken to be given on the date on which the appeal was made under the 2010 Regulations.

(3) An environmental permit under the 2010 Regulations in force at the relevant time—

(a)becomes an environmental permit authorising the operation of a regulated facility under these Regulations, with references to provisions of the 2007 Regulations or the 2010 Regulations taken to be references to the equivalent provisions of these Regulations, and

(b)has effect subject to any conditions that applied to it at the relevant time.

(4) An appeal may be made under these Regulations against a notice mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) to (e) or a decision mentioned in paragraph (2)(g) if, by the relevant time, the time for making an appeal under the 2010 Regulations had not expired, with the applicable time limit for giving notice of appeal running from the date on which the notice was served, or the decision was made, under the 2010 Regulations.

(5) Despite paragraphs (1) and (2), an exemption under paragraph 17 of Section 2 of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 of the 2010 Regulations (crushing waste fluorescent tubes (T17)) ceases to have effect.

Public registers

78.—(1) Any information that, at the relevant time, was contained in a public register maintained by a regulator under the 2010 Regulations, or was deemed to be information kept on that register, is taken to be information contained in the public register maintained by the regulator under these Regulations.

(2) Any information that, at the relevant time, was within a regulator’s possession for the purposes of regulation 46 of the 2010 Regulations but was not entered on a public register under those Regulations is taken to be in the regulator’s possession for the purposes of these Regulations and must be entered on the register as soon as reasonably practicable.

(3) Any information excluded from a public register pursuant to an existing direction under regulation 47(1) of the 2010 Regulations is taken to be notified under regulation 47(2) of these Regulations.

Site plans not required for existing permits etc.

79.  Regulation 14(4) does not apply in relation to a regulated facility to which, at the relevant time, regulation 70 of the 2010 Regulations applied.

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