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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Amendment of Regulations) Regulations 1991.
(2) These Regulations shall come into force in England and Wales on 1st April 1991 and in Scotland on 1st April 1992.
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(1) The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991 shall be amended as follows.
(2) In paragraphs 5, 13, 19 and 26 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations for “the date on which the application is first granted or refused” substitute “the determination date for that process”.
(3) For paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 to those Regulations substitute—“
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In this Part and subsequent provisions of this Schedule—
 “the determination date” for a prescribed process is—
(a) in the case of a process for which an authorisation is granted, the date on which the enforcing authority grants it, whether in pursuance of the application or, on an appeal, of a direction to grant it;
(b) in the case of a process for which an authorisation is refused, the date of the refusal or, on an appeal, of the affirmation of the refusal;
 “substantial change” has the same meaning as in section 10 of the Act.”.
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The Environmental Protection (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations 1991 shall be amended as follows—
(a) in regulation 3(6), omit “to an enforcing authority” in the second place where those words occur;
(b) in regulation 5(4), for “paragraph” substitute “regulation”.
Michael Heseltine
Secretary of State for the Environment
26th March 1991David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
26th March 1991James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
26th March 1991