Statutory Instruments
2010 No. 676
Environmental Protection, England And Wales
The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010
Made
10th March 2010
Laid before Parliament
15th March 2010
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
15th March 2010
Coming into force
6th April 2010
These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999( 1 ).
The Secretary of State, in relation to England, and the Welsh Ministers, in relation to Wales, have in accordance with section 2(4) of that Act consulted—
(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 respectively 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 the following Regulations.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations—
(a) may be cited as the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010; and
(b) come into force on 6th April 2010.
Amendment
2. —(1) The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010( 2 ) are amended as follows.
(2) In the first row of the table in paragraph 1(2) of Section 2 of Chapter 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 (storage limit in relation to waste oils) for “400 cubic metres” substitute “3 cubic metres”.
Jim Fitzpatrick
Minister of State
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
10th March 2010
Jane Davidson
Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing
one of the Welsh Ministers
10th March 2010
1999 c. 24 . 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 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) .