PART 3ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

CHAPTER 4MISCELLANEOUS

Authorisations relating to waste management: offences by partnerships

47Carriers of controlled waste: offences by partnerships affecting registration

In section 3(5) of the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989 (restrictions on powers under section 2)—

a

after paragraph (a), insert—

aa

a partnership has been convicted of a prescribed offence committed at a time when the applicant or registered carrier was a member of that partnership;

b

the word “or” immediately following paragraph (b) is repealed,

c

after paragraph (b), insert—

ba

where the applicant or registered carrier is a partnership, a person who is a member of that partnership—

i

has been convicted of a prescribed offence;

ii

was a member of another partnership at a time when a prescribed offence of which that other partnership has been convicted was committed; or

iii

was a director, manager, secretary, or other similar officer of a body corporate at a time when a prescribed offence of which that body corporate has been convicted was committed; or

d

in paragraph (c)—

i

the word “or” immediately following sub-paragraph (i) is repealed,

ii

after sub-paragraph (i), insert—

ia

was a member of a partnership at a time when a prescribed offence of which that partnership has been convicted was committed; or

iii

in sub-paragraph (ii), for the word “for” substitute “of”.