5.—(1) A waste management licence authorising the disposal of waste in a pet cemetery receiving 10 tonnes of waste or less in any day or with a total capacity of 25,000 tonnes or less on 1st October 2007 shall cease to authorise such disposal from the determination date, unless on or before that date the licence is modified to authorise disposal in accordance with the Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002.
(2) A permit under the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 authorising the disposal of waste in a pet cemetery receiving 10 tonnes of waste or less in any day or with a total capacity of 25,000 tonnes or less on 1st October shall be treated as a waste management licence for all purposes from 1st October 2007, except that paragraph (1) shall not apply to it.
(3) In this regulation—
“determination date” means 1st March 2008 or where an application for a modification to a waste management licence is made to authorise disposal in accordance with the Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 before 1st March 2008, the date on which the application is granted or, if the application is (or is deemed to be) rejected, the date on which the period for appealing against that rejection expires without an appeal being made or on which any appeal is withdrawn or finally determined;
“pet cemetery” means a landfill for the disposal of material consisting entirely of the remains of dead domestic pets;
“waste management licence” means a waste management licence within the meaning of Part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Commencement Information
I1Reg. 5 in force at 1.10.2007, see reg. 1(b)