Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 288
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
[F1The Waste Management Licensing (Amendment etc.) Regulations 1995
Made
8th February 1995
Laid before Parliament
9th February 1995
Coming into force
1st April 1995
The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, being Ministers designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of that Act, sections 29(10), 33(3), 74(6) and 75(8) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(3) (having in particular had regard in exercising their powers under section 33(3) of that Act to the matters specified in section 33(4) of that Act), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation I1
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Waste Management Licensing (Amendment etc.) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990 ;
“the 1991 Regulations” means the Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991 ( 4 ) ; and
“the Principal Regulations” means the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 ( 5 ) .
Amendment of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 I2
2.—(1) In paragraph (2) of each of regulations 3 and 7 of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992(6) (scrap metal not to be treated as household or, as the case may be, industrial or commercial waste for the purposes of section 34 of the 1990 Act), for the words from “the day appointed” to the end of the paragraph there shall be substituted “1st October 1995”.
(2) In regulation 7(1)(c) of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 (septic tank sludge in certain circumstances not to be treated as industrial or commercial waste), for “in accordance with” there shall be substituted “on agricultural land within the meaning of”.
(3) Regulation 9(1)(a) of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992 (exceptions in certain cases from section 33(1) of the 1990 Act) is hereby revoked.
Amendment of the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994
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Technical competence—transitional provisions
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John Selwyn Gummer
Secretary of State for the Environment
7th February 1995
John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales
4th February 1995
Hector Munro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
8th February 1995
S.I. 1992/2870.
S.I. 1991/472, amended by S.I. 1991/836, 1992/614, 1993/1749, 1993/2405, 1994/1271, 1994/1329.
S.I. 1994/1056.
S.I. 1992/588; regulations 3(2) and 7(2) are amended by S.I. 1993/566.