PART 3ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

CHAPTER 4MISCELLANEOUS

Authorisations relating to waste management: offences by partnerships

I148Waste management licences: offences by partnerships

In section 74(7) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (meaning of “fit and proper person”)—

a

after paragraph (a), insert—

aa

a partnership has been convicted of a relevant offence committed when the holder or, as the case may be, proposed holder of the licence was a member of that partnership;

b

the word “or” immediately following paragraph (b) is repealed,

c

after paragraph (b), insert—

ba

where the holder or, as the case may be, proposed holder of the licence is a partnership, a person who is a member of that partnership—

i

has been convicted of a relevant offence;

ii

was a member of another partnership at a time when a relevant 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 relevant 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the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (i) is repealed,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 relevant offence of which that partnership has been convicted was committed; or

iii

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