The Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991

Advertisements

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4) and regulation 6 below, an advertisement—

(a)by an applicant under paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act; or

(b)by the holder of an authorisation under paragraph 6(2) or 7(2) of that Schedule,

shall be published in one or more newspapers circulating in the locality in which the prescribed process will be carried on.

(2) Subject to regulation 7(5)(b) below, any such advertisement as is mentioned in paragraph (1) above shall be published within a period of 28 days beginning 14 days after—

(a)in the case of an advertisement under paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1 to the 1990 Act, the day on which the application for an authorisation is made;

(b)in the case of an advertisement under paragraph 6(2) of that Schedule, the day on which the holder of the authorisation is notified in accordance with section 10(5) of that Act;

(c)in the case of an advertisement under paragraph 7(2) of that Schedule, the day on which the application for a variation is made.

(3) Subject to regulation 7(4) below, any such advertisement as is mentioned in paragraph (1) above shall—

(a)state the name of the applicant or, as the case may be, of the holder of the authorisation;

(b)give the address of the premises on which the prescribed process will be carried on;

(c)describe briefly the prescribed process;

(d)state where any register which contains particulars of the application or of the action to be taken may be inspected and that it may be inspected free of charge; and

(e)explain that any person may make representations in writing to the enforcing authority within the period of 28 days beginning with the date of the advertisement and give the authority’s address.

(4) The preceding provisions of this paragraph do not apply in relation to any prescribed process which will be carried on by means of mobile plant.