Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 475 of 2016).
Type of law
Regulation
Abstract
These Regulations amend the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (EPRs) in order to extend the requirement for an environmental permit to flood risk activities. The amendments: provide for relevant definitions; provide for exempt flood risk activities; make provision for permit applications to be granted subject to conditions relating to ongoing maintenance or access requirements by the regulator; extend to flood risk activities current flexibilities in the EPRs concerning the grant by the regulator of a permit covering various activities by a single operator; extend the current provisions in the EPRs on variation, transfer and surrender of environmental permits so that they provide for flood risk activities; make provision for appeals in relation to permits authorising flood risk activities; extend the current provisions in the EPRs on enforcement and offences relating to permits so that they provide for flood risk activities; grant power to arrange for steps to be taken to remove a risk of serious flooding, detrimental impact on drainage or harm to the environment.
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Date of text
Repealed
No
Source language
English
Legislation status
in force
Legislation Amendment
No