Commentary on provisions of the Act Schedule 27: Noise Control of noise on construction sites
Paragraph 1(1) modifies the operation of sections 60 and 61 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974, so that appeals under those provisions are determined by the Secretary of State or, if the parties agree, by arbitration, rather than by a magistrates’ court.
	Paragraph 1(2) enables the Secretary of State for Transport and the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, acting jointly, to make regulations about procedure in relation to such arbitrations. Under paragraph 1(3), the regulations are to be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment procedure.