Part 1

Waste
Chapter 2

Waste management in Wales

Municipal waste management strategies
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1
The National Assembly for Wales may by regulations make provision for requiring a local authority to have for its area a strategy for the management of waste.
2
Regulations under subsection (1) may (in particular)—
a
specify matters to be addressed by a strategy;
b
specify wastes to which a strategy is to relate;
c
make provision about policies to be included in a strategy;
d
make provision in connection with review or revision of a strategy;
e
make provision for consultation, or about other procedural matters, in connection with the formulation of policy for the purposes of a strategy;
f
make provision for requiring the preparation of statements setting out policies formulated for the purposes of a strategy;
g
make provision about the contents of such statements;
h
make provision about the form of such statements;
i
make provision for publicising such statements once prepared, for publishing them, for sending copies of them to persons specified in the regulations and for public inspection of them;
j
make provision for the supply of copies of such statements, including provision for the payment of reasonable charges;
k
make provision for requiring a local authority, when formulating policy for the purposes of a strategy or preparing such a statement, to have regard to guidance (including future guidance);
l
make provision about when duties imposed by the regulations are to be performed, including provision for duties to be performed by times specified in directions given by the Assembly.
3
In this section “local authority” means a county council, or county borough council, in Wales.