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6.—(1) A waste management licence is a licence granted by the Department authorising the treatment, keeping or disposal of any specified description of controlled waste in or on specified land or the treatment or disposal of any specified description of controlled waste by means of specified mobile plant.
(2) A licence shall be granted to the following person, that is to say—
(a)in the case of a licence relating to the treatment, keeping or disposal of waste in or on land, to the person who is in occupation of the land; and
(b)in the case of a licence relating to the treatment or disposal of waste by means of mobile plant, to the person who operates the plant.
(3) A licence shall be granted on such terms and subject to such conditions as appear to the Department to be appropriate and the conditions may relate—
(a)to the activities which the licence authorises, and
(b)to the precautions to be taken and works to be carried out in connection with or in consequence of those activities;
and accordingly requirements may be imposed in the licence which are to be complied with before the activities which the licence authorises have begun or after the activities which the licence authorises have ceased.
(4) Conditions may require the holder of a licence to carry out works or do other things notwithstanding that he is not entitled to carry out the works or do the thing and any person whose consent would be required shall grant, or join in granting, the holder of the licence such rights in relation to the land as will enable the holder of the licence to comply with any requirements imposed on him by the licence.
(5) Conditions may relate, where waste other than controlled waste is to be treated, kept or disposed of, to the treatment, keeping or disposal of that other waste.
(6) Regulations may make provision as to the conditions which are, or are not, to be included in a licence.
(7) Any person who—
(a)intentionally makes a false entry in any record required to be kept under any condition of a licence, or
(b)with intent to deceive, forges or uses a licence or makes or has in his possession a document so closely resembling a licence as to be likely to deceive,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable—
(i)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
(ii)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or to a fine or to both.
(8) A licence may not be surrendered by the holder except in accordance with Article 13.
(9) A licence is not transferable by the holder but the Department may transfer it to another person under Article 14.
(10) A licence shall continue in force until it is revoked entirely by the Department under Article 12 or it is surrendered or its surrender is accepted under Article 13.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 6 partly in operation; art. 6 not in operation at date of making see art. 1(2); art. 6(1)-(3)(5)-(10) in operation at 27.11.2003 save for purposes of application to specified activities and otherwise in operation in relation to those activities in accordance with art. 3 of the commencing S.R. by S.R. 2003/489, arts. 2, 3, Sch.; art. 6(4) in operation at 3.4.2008 by S.R. 2008/138, art. 2
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