The Waste and Contaminated Land (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This order brings into operation on 17th September 1998 Articles 30 and 48 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (“the Order”) which enable the Department of the Environment to make regulations dealing respectively with special provisions with respect to certain dangerous or intractable substances and with the application of the Order to radioactive waste within the meaning of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.

The order also brings into operation other ancillary provisions of the Order.