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These Regulations, composed of 19 articles and two Schedules, establish the pollution control regime for the purpose of implementing the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive in relation to offshore qualifying combustion installations. In particular, the Regulations deal with the need for a permit in order to operate a combustion installation covered by the Regulations (reg. 3). Procedure for granting permits, the content of permits, the publication of the grant of a permit and also the making of provisions for the variation, reconsideration and updating of permit conditions and provisions for the revocation, surrender and assignment of permits are established (regs. 4-10). The Secretary of State is required to maintain a public register of the provisions of permits and of certain information required to be supplied to him under those provisions (reg. 11). Enforcement of provisions and power to appoint inspectors to serve enforcement and prohibition notices and to take further action in the event of a failure to comply with such a notice giving the power to the Secretary of State Offshore Combustion Installations are also established (regs. 13-16).
These Regulations, composed of 19 articles and two Schedules, establish the pollution control regime for the purpose of implementing the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive in relation to offshore qualifying combustion installations. In particular, the Regulations deal with the need for a permit in order to operate a combustion installation covered by the Regulations (reg. 3). Procedure for granting permits, the content of permits, the publication of the grant of a permit and a
The Regulations apply in relation to the sea adjacent to England and Wales, to the United Kingdom territorial sea apart from those areas comprised in Scottish controlled waters and to those areas of sea in any area for the time being designated under section 1(7) of the Continental Shelf Act 1964.
Title:
Offshore Combustion Installations (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 1091 of 2001).
Country:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Type of document:
Regulation
Date of text:
2001
Data source: