2003 No. 1720 (W.187)
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, WALES

The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Made
Coming into force
The National Assembly for Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by section 34(5) of the Environmental Protection Act 19901 and now exercisable by the National Assembly for Wales in relation to Wales2, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation , commencement and application1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 and come into force on 31st July 2003.

(2)

The Regulations apply to Wales.

Amendment of regulation 4 of the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 19912.

In regulation 4 of the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 19913 —

(a)

for the words “served by a waste regulation authority” substitute “served by either a waste regulation authority or an authority which is a waste collection authority for the purposes of Part II of the 1990 Act”; and

(b)

for the words “furnish the authority with a copy of it at the authority’s office” substitute “furnish that authority with a copy of it at that authority’s office”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 19984
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2839) (“the primary Regulations”), as amended by S.I. 1996/672 and as further amended, as they apply to England and Wales, by S.I. 2000/1973 and S.I. 2002/1559, to allow waste collection authorities to serve on any person who is required to keep a written description of waste and a transfer note under the primary Regulations a notice requiring that person to furnish to the waste collection authority at its office, within a specified period of time, such written descriptions of waste and transfer notes as are specified in that notice.