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Skip to main contentSkip to navigationlegislation.gov.ukThe National ArchivesHelpSite MapAccessibilityContact UsCymraegHomeAbout UsBrowse LegislationNew LegislationChanges To LegislationSearch LegislationSearch LegislationTitle: (or keywords in the title)Year:Number:Type:All Legislation (excluding draft)All Primary Legislation UK Public General Acts UK Local Acts Acts of the Scottish Parliament Acts of the National Assembly for Wales Measures of the National Assembly for Wales Church Measures Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Old Scottish Parliament Acts of the English Parliament Acts of the Old Irish Parliament Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain Northern Ireland Orders in Council Measures of the Northern Ireland Assembly Acts of the Northern Ireland ParliamentAll Secondary Legislation UK Statutory Instruments Wales Statutory Instruments Scottish Statutory Instruments Northern Ireland Statutory Rules Church Instruments UK Ministerial Orders UK Statutory Rules and OrdersAll Draft Legislation UK Draft Statutory Instruments Scottish Draft Statutory Instruments Northern Ireland Draft Statutory RulesAll Impact Assessments UK Impact AssessmentsSearchAdvanced SearchThe Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003You are here:2003 No. 46Whole Rule without SchedulesTable of ContentsContentMore ResourcesPrevious: IntroductionNext: SchedulePlain ViewPrint OptionsWhat VersionLatest available (Revised)Original (As made)Opening OptionsOpen whole RuleOpen Rule without schedulesOpen Schedules onlyMore ResourcesOriginal Print PDFView moreStatus:This is the original version (as it was originally made). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.PART 1GENERALCitation and commencement1. These Regulations may be cited as the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 31 March 2003.
Interpretation: general2.—(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland)(1) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
(2) In these Regulations, except in so far as the context otherwise requires—
“change in operation” means, in relation to an installation or mobile plant, a change in the nature or functioning or an extension of the installation or mobile plant which may have consequences for the environment; and “substantial change in operation” means, in relation to an installation or mobile plant, a change in operation which, in the opinion of the enforcing authority, may have significant negative effects on human beings or the environment;
“chief inspector” means the inspector constituted to be the chief inspector under regulation 8(3);
“the Directive” means Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control(2);
(iii)in relation to Part C installations, the direct release of substances or heat from individual or diffuse sources in an installation into the air;
(iv)in relation to Part A mobile plant, the direct or indirect release of substances, vibrations, heat or noise from the mobile plant into the air, water or land;
(v)in relation to Part B mobile plant, the direct release of substances or heat from the mobile plant into the air;
(vi)in relation to Part C mobile plant, the direct release of substances or heat from the mobile plant into the air;
“enforcing authority” means, in relation to the exercise of functions under these Regulations, the authority, either the chief inspector or district council, by whom, under regulation 7, the functions are exercisable;
“inspector” means a person appointed under regulation 8(1) or (5);
“operator”, subject to paragraph (3), means, in relation to an installation or mobile plant, the person who has control over its operation;
“Part A installation”, “Part B installation” and “Part C installation” shall be interpreted in accordance with Part 3 of Schedule 1;
“Part A mobile plant”, “Part B mobile plant” and “Part C mobile plant” shall be interpreted in accordance with Part 3 of Schedule 1;
“Planning Appeals Commission” means the Planning Appeals Commission established under Article 110 of the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(3);
“specified waste management activity” means any one of the following activities–
(i)the disposal of waste in a landfill, whether or not the disposal falls within Section 5.2 of Part 1 of Schedule 1;
(ii)the disposal of waste falling within Section 5.3 of that Part of that Schedule;
(iii)the recovery of waste falling within paragraphs (i), (ii), (v) or (vii) of paragraph (c) of Part A of Section 5.4 of that Part of that Schedule;
“substance” includes any chemical element and its compounds and any biological entity or micro-organism, with the exception of radioactive substances within the meaning of Council Directive 80/836/Euratom(4), genetically modified micro-organisms within the meaning of Council Directive 90/219/EEC(5) and genetically modified organisms within the meaning of Council Directive 90/220/EEC(6);
(a)a reference to a release into water includes a release into a sewer (within the meaning of Article 2(2) of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973)(7);
(5) Part 1 of Schedule 1 shall be interpreted in accordance with the provisions as to interpretation in Parts 1 and 2 of that Schedule.
Interpretation: “best available techniques”3.—(1) For the purpose of these Regulations, “best available techniques” means the most effective and advanced stage in the development of activities and their methods of operation which indicates the practical suitability of particular techniques for providing in principle the basis for emission limit values designed to prevent and, where that is not practicable, generally to reduce emissions and the impact on the environment as a whole; and for the purpose of this definition–
Fit and proper person4.—(1) This regulation applies for the purpose of the discharge of any function under these Regulations which requires the chief inspector to determine whether a person is or is not a fit and proper person to carry out a specified waste management activity.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), a person shall be treated as not being a fit and proper person if it appears to the chief inspector that–
(4) The chief inspector may, if he considers it proper to do so in any particular case, treat a person as a fit and proper person notwithstanding that paragraph (3)(a) applies in his case.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (3), “relevant offence” means an offence under any of the following enactments–
(a)section 114 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878(8);
(b)section 98(3) or (4) of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972(9);
(c)Article 5, 7(4), 16(4), 18(2), 29, 38(4), 56, or 72(3) of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(10);
(d)the Pollution Control (Special Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(11);
(e)section 9(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985(12);
(f)the Transfrontier Shipment of Hazardous Waste Regulations 1988(13);
(g)the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Regulations 1988(14);
(h)the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 1994(15);
(i)paragraph 15(1), (3), (4) or (5) of Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1996(16);
(j)Article 4, 5(8), 22(6), 38(1), 42, 43(9), 44(2), or 74 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(17);
(k)Article 23(1) of the Industrial Pol