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Part I Integrated Pollution Control and Air Pollution Control by Local Authorities
Prohibition on unauthorised or harmful depositing, treatment or disposal of waste
Collection, disposal or treatment of controlled waste
45AZA.England: separate collection of household waste from relevant non-domestic premises
45AZB.England: separate collection of industrial or commercial waste
45AZG.Sections 45AZA and 45AZB: appeals against compliance notices
45B.Power to apply section 45A to Welsh waste collection authorities
45C.Separate collection of dry recyclable waste and food waste: Scotland
46A.Written warnings and penalties for failure to comply with requirements relating to household waste receptacles: England
46B.Amount of penalty under section 46A and recovery of penalty
46C.Penalties under section 46A: procedure regarding notices of intent and final notices
47ZA.Fixed penalty notices for offences under sections 46 and 47
48.Duties of waste collection authorities as respects disposal of waste collected.
53.Duties of authorities as respects disposal of waste collected: Scotland.
54.Special provisions for land occupied by disposal authorities: Scotland.
57.Power of Secretary of State to require waste to be accepted, treated, disposed of or delivered.
58.Power of Secretary of State to require waste to be accepted, treated, disposed of or delivered: Scotland.
59ZA.Section 59: supplementary power in relation to owner of land
59ZB.Powers to require removal of waste unlawfully kept or disposed of: England and Wales
59ZC.Section 59ZB: supplementary power in relation to owner of land
59A.Directions in relation to exercise of powers under section 59 , 59ZA, 59ZB or 59ZC
61. Duty of waste regulation authorities as respects closed landfills.
78D. Referral of special site decisions to the Secretary of State.
78E. Duty of enforcing authority to require remediation of contaminated land etc.
78F. Determination of the appropriate person to bear responsibility for remediation.
78H. Restrictions and prohibitions on serving remediation notices.
78J. Restrictions on liability relating to the pollution of controlled waters.
78K. Liability in respect of contaminating substances which escape to other land.
78N. Powers of the enforcing authority to carry out remediation.
78P. Recovery of, and security for, the cost of remediation by the enforcing authority.
78S. Exclusion from registers of information affecting national security.
78T. Exclusion from registers of certain confidential information.
78TA.Registers: removal of information about land designated as special site
78U. Reports by the appropriate Agency on the state of contaminated land.
78V. Site-specific guidance by the appropriate Agency concerning contaminated land.
78W. The appropriate Agency to have regard to guidance given by the Secretary of State.
78YA. Supplementary provisions with respect to guidance by the Secretary of State.
Part VI Genetically Modified Organisms
Part VII Nature Conservation in Great Britain and Countryside Matters in Wales
Other controls on substances, articles or waste
140. Power to prohibit or restrict the importation, use, supply or storage of injurious substances or articles.
141.Power to regulate the importation or exportation of waste or the transit of waste for export.
142. Powers to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances.
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145. Penalties for offences of polluting controlled waters etc.
SCHEDULES
1.Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below.
4.Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any...
5.Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions...
6.Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts, etc. ).
7.Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated solvents, exhausted...
8.Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms, etc. )....
9.Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts,...
10.Machining or finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales, etc....
11.Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues,...
12.Adulterated materials (e.g. oils contaminated with PCBs, etc. ).
13.Any materials, substances or products whose use has been banned...
14.Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g....
15.Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with...
16.Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in...
Statutory Nuisances: Supplementary Provisions
Free distribution of printed matter on designated land
Abandoned Shopping and Luggage Trolleys
The Countryside Council for Wales: Constitution.
Amendment of Enactments conferring Nature Conservancy Functions
Amendments of Hazardous Substances Legislation
1.The Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990 shall be amended as...
2.(1) Section 2 (appropriate Minister to be hazardous substances authority...
3.In section 7(1)(a) (applications for consent), after the word “applications”...
4.In section 11 (deemed hazardous substances consent in transitional cases)—...
5.In section 12 (deemed consent: government authorisation), at the end...
6.In section 13 (applications for hazardous substances consent in place...
7.In section 22 (validity of decisions as to applications), in...
8.In section 25(1)(c) (provisions of principal Act capable of application...
9.Before section 27 there shall be inserted the following section—...
10.In section 303(6) of the Town and Country Planning Act...
Amendments of the Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971
1.The Prevention of Oil Pollution Act 1971 shall be amended...
2.In section 19 (prosecutions), after subsection (4), there shall be...
3.After that section there shall be inserted the following section—...
5.In section 24(2) (application of Act to Government ships), for...
7.In section 30 (provisions as to Northern Ireland), after subsection...
Consequential and Minor Amendments of Enactments
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Exclusion of Part II of Control of Pollution Act 1974 for radioactive substances: Scotland
Registers of deposits etc. at sea: Northern Ireland Assembly control of regulations
Exclusion of Part III of Water Act 1989 for discharges from prescribed processes
Part I Enactments Relating to Processes
Note: The repeal of the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act...
Part VI Enactments Relating to Nature Conservation and Countryside Matters
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