The Waste Management Licensing (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003

Made: 9th March 2003

Laid before Parliament: 10th March 2003

Coming into force: 1st April 2003

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Citation, commencement and territorial application

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Amendment of the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994

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Interpretation – scrap metal dealer

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Technical competence

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Transitional provision

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Insertion of Schedule 1A – Certificates of Technical Competence

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SCHEDULE

Signed

Michael Meacher — Minister of State, — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 9th March 2003

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1992/2870.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: Section 74(6) enables regulations to be made prescribing the qualifications and experience required of a person for the purposes of the management of an activity authorised by a waste management licence granted under section 35. The qualifications and experience so prescribed are treated by regulation 4(5)(b) of S.I. 2000/1973 (which applies to England and Wales as the qualifications and experience required of a person for the purposes of technical competence to manage a waste management activity authorised by a permit under Part II of that instrument (which implements Council Directive 91/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control, O.J. No. L257, 10.10.96, p. 26). The extension of that instrument to landfills by regulation 6 of S.I. 2002/1559 (which apply to England and Wales and which implement Council Directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste (O.J. L182, 16.7.99, p. 1)) has the effect that the qualifications and experience prescribed pursuant to section 74(6) apply to persons managing a landfill pursuant to a landfill permit.

[^f00004]: 1990 c. 43. The relevant functions of the Secretary of State in so far as they relate to Scotland were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46); and so far as they relate to Wales were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1.

[^f00005]: S.I. 1994/1056, which apply to Great Britain. These Regulations were last amended (in relation to England and Wales) by regulation 6 of S.I. 2002/2980).

[^f00006]: There are amendments to regulation 1(3) not relevant to this amendment.

[^f00007]: 1964 c. 69. Section 9(1) was amended by section 43 of, and paragraph 2 of the Schedule to, the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001 (c. 3). There are other amendments to that Act not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00008]: Regulation 4 was amended by S.I. 1996/634 and 1997/2203.

[^f00009]: S.I. 2002/2934, implementing Council Directive 92/51/EEC on a second general system for the recognition of professional education and training. Part 1 of Schedule 2 (Professions Regulated by Law or Public Authority) designates WAMITAB as the authority for certified technically competent persons.

[^f00010]: WAMITAB is a private law body which was set up by the waste management industry.

[^f00011]: 1978 c. 3.

[^f00012]: S.I. 2002/1559.

[^f00013]: O.J. No. L377, 31.12.1991, p. 20.

[^f00014]: O.J. No. L168, 2.7.1994, p. 28.

[^f00015]: 1968 c. 67; section 130 was amended by paragraph 3(7) to (10) of Schedule 1, and Schedule 2, to the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 (c. 40).

[^f00016]: Section 58 was amended by section 1 of the Medicinal Products: Prescription by Nurses etc. Act 1992 (c. 28).

Editorial notes

[^key-734d13debd2dd6d2e58feac1cbbb2ee3]: Regulations revoked (6.4.2008) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3538), reg. 1(b), Sch. 22 (with regs. 69-72)