47.—(1) It is the duty of the Department to enforce these Regulations and to supervise the persons and activities subject to any provision of these Regulations.
(2) In preparing any waste strategy under Article 19 of the 1997 Order, and in modifying that strategy in accordance with Article 19(2), and in accordance with Article 7 of the Waste Directive and Article 6(1) of the Hazardous Waste Directive, the Department shall ensure that the content of the strategy under Article 19(3) addresses specifically plans for the management of hazardous waste, supported, as required by consultation and surveys under Article 19(4) and (5), and such plans shall be made public in such manner as appears to the Department to be appropriate.
48.—(1) The Special Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(1) are hereby revoked.
(2) Schedule 10 (which makes consequential amendments to the 1997 Order in Part 1 and to secondary legislation in Part 2) has effect.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the 1998 Regulations shall continue to have effect in relation to any hazardous waste in respect of which the consignment note (within the meaning of those Regulations) has been generated, in accordance with regulation 5 of those Regulations, before the coming into operation of these Regulations.
(4) In the event that a consignment of hazardous waste under a consignment note issued under the 1998 Regulations is refused or rejected by the consignee, and these Regulations have taken effect since the issue of that consignment note, notwithstanding paragraph (3) above, a new consignment note shall be issued in accordance with these Regulations.
(5) The requirements of Regulation 39(1) (“site records”) apply equally to records kept under the Special Waste Regulations 1998, notwithstanding paragraph (1) above.
(6) Consignment notes issued under the 1998 Regulations shall cease to have effect on 16th August 2005 and will not be valid for use on or after this date.