PART 3ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

CHAPTER 4MISCELLANEOUS

Authorisations relating to waste management: offences by partnerships

47Carriers of controlled waste: offences by partnerships affecting registration

In section 3(5) of the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989 (restrictions on powers under section 2)—

(a)

after paragraph (a), insert—

“(aa)

a partnership has been convicted of a prescribed offence committed at a time when the applicant or registered carrier was a member of that partnership;”,

(b)

the word “or” immediately following paragraph (b) is repealed,

(c)

after paragraph (b), insert—

“(ba)

where the applicant or registered carrier is a partnership, a person who is a member of that partnership—

(i)

has been convicted of a prescribed offence;

(ii)

was a member of another partnership at a time when a prescribed offence of which that other partnership has been convicted was committed; or

(iii)

was a director, manager, secretary, or other similar officer of a body corporate at a time when a prescribed offence of which that body corporate has been convicted was committed; or”,

(d)

in paragraph (c)—

(i)

the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (i) is repealed,

(ii)

after sub-paragraph (i), insert—

“(ia)

was a member of a partnership at a time when a prescribed offence of which that partnership has been convicted was committed; or”,

(iii)

in sub-paragraph (ii), for the word “for” substitute “ of ”.