The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 831

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENGLAND

The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000

Made

20th March 2000

Laid before Parliament

27th March 2000

Coming into force

17th April 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 52(8) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 17th April 2000.

(2) These Regulations extend to England only.

Amendment of regulations

2.  For the Schedule to the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992(2) in relation to England substitute–

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.	£52.38
A London waste disposal authority which comprises outer London boroughs. The council of an outer London borough.	£46.19
The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. The council of a metropolitan district.	£38.80
Any other waste disposal authority in England.	£31.53 where the authority incurs any transport costs in disposing of similar waste, and £22.75 in other cases.”

Revocation

3.  The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1999(3) (which last substituted a new Schedule to the 1992 Regulations) is hereby revoked in relation to England.

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

Michael Meacher

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

20th March 2000

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 for 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 provides figures for determining a waste disposal 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 by an average of fifteen per cent in relation to England to take account of increases in landfill tax and rises in the retail price index.

(1)

1990 c. 43. The Secretary of State can exercise these powers only in relation to England; see article 2 of, and the entry relating to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 in Schedule 1 to, the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) and section 52 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

(2)

S.I. 1992/462; the Schedule was substituted by S.I. 1999/546.

(3)

S.I. 1999/546.