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SCHEDULE 2EXEMPTIONS FROM WASTE MANAGEMENT LICENSING

PART Iactivities exempt from waste management licensing

30.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), burning waste on land in the open if –

(a)the waste consists of wood, bark or other plant matter not being waste falling within paragraph 46;

(b)it is produced on land which is operational land of a railway, light railway, tramway, or any Government Department, or which is a forest, woodland, park, garden, verge, landscaped area, sports ground, recreation ground, bank of inland waterway, churchyard or cemetery, or it is produced on other land as a result of demolition work;

(c)it is burned on the land where it is produced; and

(d)the total quantity burned in any period of 24 hours does not exceed 10 tonnes.

(2) Sub-paragraph (1) only applies to the burning of waste by an establishment or undertaking where the waste burned is the establishment or undertaking’s own waste.

(3) The storage pending its burning, on the land where it is to be burned, of waste which is to be burned in reliance upon the exemption conferred by sub-paragraph (1).