Amendment of the Controlled Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20025.

The Controlled Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20027 shall be amended as follows: –

(a)

at the end of regulation 3 there shall be added –

“(2)

Waste of the following descriptions shall be treated as household waste for the purposes only of Article 5(2) (household waste produced on domestic property) –

(a)

waste arising from works of construction or demolition, including waste arising from work preparatory thereto; and

(b)

septic tank sludge.”;

(b)

at the end of each of regulations 4 and 8 there shall be added –

“(2)

Scrap metal shall not be treated as household or, as the case may be, industrial or commercial waste, for the purposes of Article 5 at any time before the day appointed under Article 1(2) of the Order for the repeal of Articles 5 to 12 of the 1978 Order in relation to controlled waste which is scrap metal.”;

(c)

in regulation 6 –

(i)

for “Subject to regulation 8” there shall be substituted “Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 8”; and

(ii)

at the end there shall be added –

“(2)

Waste described in paragraphs 7 and 8 of Schedule 3 shall not be treated as industrial waste for the purposes of Article 5(2) of the Order.”;

(d)

at the end of regulation 8 there shall be added –

“(3)

Animal by-products which are collected and transported in accordance with Schedule 2 to the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 shall not be treated as industrial waste or commercial waste for the purpose of Article 5 (duty of care etc as respects waste).

(4)

In this regulation “animal by-products” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993.”; and

(e)

in Schedule 3, paragraph 17(1) for “Waste oil or waste solvent” there shall be substituted “Waste oil, waste solvent or (subject to regulation 8(2)) scrap metal,”.