The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 607

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1998

Made

9th March 1998

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1998

Coming into force

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 52(8) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

Amendment of regulations

2.  For the Schedule to the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992(2) there shall be substituted—

Regulation 2(5)

“The SCHEDULE REPRESENTATIVE SAVINGS IN WASTE DISPOSAL COSTS

Type of waste disposal authority	Saving in waste disposal costs per tonne
A London waste disposal authority for an area which includes an inner London borough. The council of an inner London borough. The Common Council of the City of London.	£46.18
A London waste disposal authority which comprises outer London boroughs. The council of an outer London borough.	£40.27
The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. The council of a metropolitan district.	£33.21
Any other waste disposal authority.	£26.26 where the authority incurs any transport costs in disposing of similar waste and £17.87 in other cases.”

Revocation

3.  Regulation 3 of the Waste Management (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1977(3) (which last substituted a new Schedule to the 1992 Regulations) is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Angela Eagle

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

4th March 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Win Griffiths

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

6th March 1998

Sewel

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

9th March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 52(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires waste disposal authorities to pay waste collection authorities amounts representing their net savings on the disposal of waste retained by collection authorities for recycling.

Section 52(3) of that Act confers a power on waste disposal authorities to pay persons other than waste collection authorities equivalent amounts of waste collected by them for recycling.

The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992 made provision for the determination of a waste disposal authority’s net saving of expenditure for the purposes of section 52(1) or (3) of that Act in relation to such waste. The Schedule to those Regulations provided figures for determining a waste authority’s net saving of expenditure where this could not otherwise be determined because sufficient accurate information was not available, or could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. These Regulations increase those figures to take account of rises in the retail price index.

(1)

1990 c. 43.

(2)

S.I. 1992/462, the Schedule was substituted by S.I. 1997/351.

(3)

S.I. 1997/351.