The Landfill (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 No. 161

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Landfill (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 4^th July 2013.

Interpretation N.I.

2.—(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 M1 applies to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 M2 .

Marginal Citations

M1 1954 c.33 (NI)

M2 S.R. 2003/496 as relevantly amended by S.R. 2004 No. 297 and S.R. 2009 No. 159

Amendment of the principal Regulations N.I.

3.—(1) In Regulation 2(2) of the principal Regulations–

(a) insert the following definition at the appropriate place–

““the Directive” means Council Directive 99/31/EC of 26^th April 1999 on the landfill of waste as amended by Council Directive 2011/97/EU of 5^th December 2011 as regards specific criteria for the storage of metallic mercury considered as waste;”;

(b) for the words from “and other expressions used in these Regulations” to the end substitute the words “ and other expressions used in these Regulations and the Directive shall have the same meaning as in the Directive. ”

(2) In regulation 9 of the principal Regulations, in paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute–

“(a) any waste in liquid form other than–

(i) sludge; and

(ii) metallic mercury,

but including waste water;”.

(3) Schedules 1 to 3 (amendments to Schedules 1 to 3 of the principal Regulations) have effect.

Amendment of the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 N.I.

F1 4.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 4 revoked (28.9.2015) by The Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/325), reg. 1, Sch. 7 (with reg. 3(2))

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 6^th June 2013.

L.S.

Wesley Shannon

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment