The Special Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 289

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Special Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

14th August 1998

Coming into operation

18th September 1998

The Department of the Environment, being a department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the regulation and control of the transit, import and export of waste (including recyclable materials), the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) of that Act, Articles 5(1), 17, 36(4) and 86(2) of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(3), Articles 2(3), 30 and 48 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(4) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 1993/2661, S.I. 1992/2870 and S.I. 1988/785

(2)

1972 c. 68

(3)

S.I. 1978/1049 (N.I. 19), See Article 2(2) for definition of “Department”, “prescribed” and “regulations”

(4)

S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19), See Article 2(2) for definition of “Department” and “regulations”