The Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1996

2.  In regulation 1(4) (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “the approved supply list”—

(i) for the words “2nd Edition” there shall be substituted the words “3rd Edition”;

(ii) for the date “18th October 1994” there shall be substituted the date “24th January 1996”;

(b) for the definition of “household waste” there shall be substituted the following—

““household waste” means waste which is household waste for the purposes of Part II of the 1990 Act(1) or which is treated as household waste for those purposes by virtue of regulation 2(1) of the Controlled Waste Regulations 1992(2), other than—

(a) asbestos;

(b) waste from a laboratory;

(c) waste from a hospital, other than waste from a self-contained part of a hospital which is used wholly for the purposes of living accommodation.”.

(1)

See section 75(5) of the 1990 Act.

(2)

S.I. 1992/588, amended by S.I. 1993/566, 1994/1056 and 1995/288.