Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003

29 Municipal waste management strategies

(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.