C42

Application of section modified (1.08.1994) by Environmental Protection Agency (Extension of Powers) Order 1994 (S.I. No. 206 of 1994), art. 4, in effect as per art. 2.

4. The provisions of the Act of 1977, of that Act as amended by the Act of 1990, and of the Act of 1990, which are specified in the Table hereunder as modified by this Order shall apply to the Agency in lieu of the local authority or sanitary authority for the purposes of the prevention or limitation, or the remedying of the effects, as the case may be, of water pollution from an activity, other than an activity to which section 99 (2) of the Act applies, in respect of which a licence or revised licence under Part IV of the Act is in force.

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5. For the purposes of article 4, a function conferred on a local authority or sanitary authority, or anything required to be done in relation to a local authority or sanitary authority, as the case may be, under any of the provisions of the Act of 1977, of that Act as amended by the Act of 1990 and of the Act of 1990 which are specified in that article shall, as the case may be, be exercised by, or done in relation to, the Agency in lieu of the local authority or sanitary authority.

6. (1) For the purposes of articles 4 and 5, for references to "local authority" or "sanitary authority" in any of the provisions therein referred to (other than section 10 (8) (f) of the Act of 1977), there shall be substituted the following—

"the Environmental Protection Agency, in the case of an activity in respect of which a licence or revised licence under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992 , is in force and, in any other case, a local authority, or sanitary authority, as the case may be",

and cognate words shall be construed accordingly.

(2) For the purposes of articles 4 and 5, the provisions of the Act of 1977 and the Act of 1990 which are specified in the said articles shall apply as modified in the manner set out in the First Schedule.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Modifications of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts 1977 and 1990

The provisions of the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 and 1990 as modified for the purposes of articles 6 (2) and 9 are set out as follows— ...

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