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

Made: 9th July 2003

Coming into force: 31st July 2003

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 1990[^f00001] and now exercisable by the National Assembly for Wales in relation to Wales[^f00002], hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation , commencement and application

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• (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 1991

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In regulation 4 of the Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991[^f00003] —

• (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

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00004]

D. Elis-Thomas — The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly — 9th July 2003

Explanatory note

(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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 43; there are amendments to section 34 not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00002]: The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales, in relation to Wales, by virtue of article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

[^f00003]: S.I. 1991/2839, as amended by regulation 23 of S.I. 1996/972 and, as it applies to England and Wales, by regulation 39 and Schedule 10, Part 2, paragraph 26 of S.I. 2000/1973 and regulation 19 of S.I. 2002/1559. The Regulations have also been amended, in relation to Scotland, by regulation 36 of S.S.I 2000/323 and, in relation to England, by regulation 3 of S.I. 2003/63.

[^f00004]: 1998 c. 38.