Requirements regarding waste management plans: time for submission of first and subsequent plans
7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a harbour authority or terminal operator shall submit its first waste management plan to the Secretary of State for approval in accordance with regulation 6(1) or (2), as the case may be—
(a)within three years of the date on which the Secretary of State approved a waste management plan for the harbour or terminal in question under regulation 10(2)(b) of the Merchant Shipping (Port Waste Reception Facilities) Regulations 1997; or
(b)within three years of the date on which the Secretary of State prepared such a plan for the harbour or terminal in question pursuant to regulation 11 of those Regulations.
(2) A harbour authority for a new harbour, or a terminal operator for a new terminal to which a direction under regulation 6(2) applies, shall submit a waste management plan to the Secretary of State for approval in accordance with regulation 6(1) or (2), as the case may be, within nine months of the date on which the new harbour or terminal was opened; and for this purpose “new”, in relation to a harbour or terminal, means a facility which commences operations after the coming into force of these Regulations.
(3) A harbour authority or terminal operator shall submit subsequent waste management plans to the Secretary of State for approval in accordance with regulation 6(1)—
(a)within nine months of any significant change to the operation of the harbour or terminal since the most recent plan was approved by the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 8(1) or prepared by him pursuant to regulation 9; or
(b)no later than three years after the most recent plan was approved by the Secretary of State pursuant to regulation 8(1) or prepared by him pursuant to regulation 9,
whichever is the sooner.