
1 
This Order may be cited as the Industrial Pollution Control (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998.
2 
The day appointed for the coming into operation of the provisions of the Industrial Pollution Control (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule and which relate to the subject matter specified in column 2 thereof shall be 2nd March 1998.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on
R. W. Rogers
Assistant Secretary
25th February 1998.
SCHEDULE
Article 2


Provisions of the Order Subject matter of provisions
Article 1 Title and commencement
Article 2 Interpretation
Article 3 Prescribed processes and prescribed substances
Article 4 Emission etc. limits and quality objectives
Article 5 Discharge and scope of functions
Article 6 Authorisations: general provisions
Article 7 Conditions of authorisations
Article 8 Fees and charges for authorisations
Article 9 Transfer of authorisations
Article 10 Variation of authorisations by enforcing authority
Article 11 Variation of conditions etc: applications by holders of authorisations
Article 12 Revocation of authorisation
Article 13 Enforcement notices
Article 14 Prohibition notices
Article 15 Appeals as respects authorisations and against variation, enforcement and prohibition notices
Article 16 Appointment of chief inspector and other inspectors
Article 17 Powers of inspectors and others
Article 18 Power to deal with cause of imminent danger of serious pollution, etc.
Article 19 Obtaining of information from persons and authorities
Article 20 Public registers of information
Article 21 Exclusion from registers of information affecting national security
Article 22 Exclusion from registers of certain confidential information
Article 23 Offences
Article 24 Enforcement by High Court
Article 25 Evidence in connection with certain pollution offences
Article 26 Power of court to order cause of offence to be remedied
Article 27 Power of chief inspector to remedy harm
Article 28 Authorisations and other statutory controls
Article 29 Disclosure of information
Article 30 Power to give effect to Community and other international obligations etc.
Article 31 Application to Crown
Article 32 Offences by bodies corporate
Article 33 Offences due to fault of others
Article 34 Regulations, orders and directions
Article 35 so far as it relates to the provisions of Schedules 4 and 5 of the Order specified below Amendments and repeals
Schedule 1 Authorisations for processes: supplementary provisions
Schedule 2 Appeals and matters referred to the Planning Appeals Commission
Schedule 3 Supplemental provisions with respect to powers of entry
Schedule 4 Consequential Amendments
Paragraphs 1-12
Paragraph 14
In Schedule 5 Repeals
The entry relative to the Water Act (Northern Ireland) 1972
The entry relative to the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 insofar as it refers to the words “or the place at which he does so is a work registered in pursuance of section 9 of the Alkali Act” in Article 56(1)
The entry relative to Schedule 3 to the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 insofar as it repeals paragraphs 32 to 33