SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 27Enabling powers: alteration of maximum penalties etc.

Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43)

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1

Section 141 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (power to prohibit or restrict the importation or exportation of waste) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (g) of subsection (5), for “six months” there is substituted “ the prescribed term ”.

3

After that subsection there is inserted—

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In subsection (5)(g), “the prescribed term” means—

a

in relation to England and Wales, where the offence is a summary offence, 51 weeks;

b

in relation to England and Wales, where the offence is triable either way, twelve months;

c

in relation to Scotland and Northern Ireland, six months.