Part 3: Waste and Resource Efficiency Section 70: Regulation of polluting activities
Section 70 amends Schedule 1 to the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999, which sets out the purposes for which the Secretary of State can make regulations under Section 2 of that Act. The current purpose set out in paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 relates to the prohibition of operating an installation or plant of a specified description without a permit. In other words, under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1, the Secretary of State is able to make regulations relating to permits and also exemptions from permits.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new sub-paragraph into paragraph 4 of Schedule 1, setting out a new purpose for which regulations can be made. This allows the Secretary of State to prohibit an activity unless it meets conditions determined by the Environment Agency and/or Natural Resources Wales in accordance with the regulations. This enables the Environment Agency and/or Natural Resources Wales to set conditions for exempt activities, which do not require a permit, but only relating to activities specified by the Secretary of State in regulations and only within the confines specified by the Secretary of State in regulations. This new purpose sits in addition to the existing purpose in paragraph 4 set out above.
	Section 70 forms part of the law of England and Wales.