HEALTH AND SAFETY Citation, commencement and interpretation 1 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere) (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 31st March 1989. 2 In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations ” means the Health and Safety (Emissions into the Atmosphere) Regulations 1983 . Amendment of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations 2 In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (List of Works)– a the paragraph headed “Chemical incineration works” shall be omitted; b the following shall be substituted for the paragraph headed “Asbestos works”– Asbestos works Works in which– raw asbestos ore is produced, but excluding any process directly associated with the mining of the ore; or asbestos is used in the manufacture and industrial finishing of– asbestos cement, asbestos cement products, asbestos fillers, asbestos filters, asbestos floor coverings, asbestos friction products, asbestos insulating board, asbestos jointing, packaging and reinforcement materials, asbestos packing, asbestos paper and card, or asbestos textiles; or crocidolite is stripped from railway vehicles other than as part of repair or maintenance or during vehicle recovery after an accident; or railway vehicles containing crocidolite are destroyed by burning at purpose built installations. For the purposes of this paragraph, “asbestos” means any of the following fibrous silicates: actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite or tremolite. c the following shall be substituted for sub-paragraph (b) of the paragraph headed “Electricity Works”– b for the generation of electricity for any purpose where the net rated thermal input of the works is 50 megawatts or more, other than those mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph. ; and d the following paragraphs shall be inserted at the appropriate places– Fibre works Works in which glass fibre or mineral fibre (other than asbestos fibre) is made. Incineration works Works for the destruction by burning of– waste produced from chemical manufacturing processes; or chemical waste containing combined bromine, cadmium, chlorine, fluorine, iodine, lead, mercury, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur or zinc; or waste produced in the manufacture of plastics; or other waste, where the works are capable of incinerating 1 tonne or more of waste per hour. Large combustion works Works (other than those mentioned elsewhere in this Schedule) in which solid, liquid or gaseous fuel is burned in boilers or furnaces with a net rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more. Large glass works Works capable of producing 5,000 tonnes or more of glass (other than glass fibre) per year. Large paper pulp works Works capable of producing 25,000 tonnes or more of paper pulp by chemical methods per year. Amendment of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations 3 In Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (Noxious or offensive substances)– a in the list of noxious or offensive substances, the following shall be inserted at the appropriate places– Acrylic acid; Glass fibres; Isocyanates; Mineral fibres; Phenols; Phosphorus or its compounds; Styrene; b in the list of elements following the words “Fumes or dust containing”, the following shall be inserted at the appropriate places– gallium, nickel, platinum, silver, sulphur, tellurium, thallium, tin. Nicholas Ridley Secretary of State for the Environment 1st March 1989 Peter Walker Secretary of State for Wales 2nd March 1989 Malcolm Rifkind Secretary of State for Scotland 2nd March 1989