Section 4(3)

Subject to subsection (4) below, those functions, in their application to prescribed processes designated for local control, shall be functions of— and the functions applicable to such processes shall be exercisable for the purpose of preventing or minimising pollution of the environment due to the release of substances into the air (but not into any other environmental medium). in the case of a prescribed process carried on (or to be carried on) by means of a mobile plant, where the person carrying on the process has his principal place of business— in England and Wales, the local authority in whose area that place of business is; in Scotland, SEPA; in any other cases, where the prescribed processes are (or are to be) carried on— in England and Wales, the local authority in whose area they are (or are to be) carried on; in Scotland, SEPA;

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