The Waste Regulation and Disposal (Authorities) Order 1985

17.  Section 5 (recovery of expenses connected with removed vehicles) shall have effect as if—

(a) in subsection (4) for the definition of “appropriate authority” the following definition were substituted—

“`appropriate authority' means —

(a)

in the case of a vehicle removed in pursuance of section 3(1) above by the council of a London borough whose area is included in the area of a London waste disposal authority, that authority;

(b)

in the case of a vehicle so removed by the council of a metropolitan district whose area is included in the area of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority or the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority, the authority in question;

(c)

in the case of a vehicle so removed by the council of a non-metropolitan district in England, the county council; and

(d)

in the case of a vehicle so removed by any other local authority in England or by a local authority in Wales, that local authority; and ”

; and

(b) in subsection (5) after the words “subsection (1)(b) above” there were inserted the following paragraph—

“(a) a vehicle removed in pursuance of section 3(1) above by the council of a London borough whose area is included in the area of a London waste disposal authority, or by the council of a metropolitan district whose area is included in the area of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority or the Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority, shall be treated as in the control of the authority in question while it was in the custody of the council by whom it was so removed; and ”.