Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2003 No. 496

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Made

1st December 2003

To be laid before Parliament

Coming into operation

6th January 2004

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Article 4 of the Environment (Northern Ireland) Order 2002(1), and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf and having, in accordance with Article 4(4) of that Order, consulted district councils and such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of district councils as it considers appropriate, such bodies and persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of industry, agriculture and business it considers appropriate and such other bodies or persons as it considers appropriate, hereby makes the following Regulations(2):

(2)

Article 4(7) of the 2002 Order requires that a draft of the Regulations be laid before, and be approved by a resolution of, the Assembly. Paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 provides that those conditions do not apply while section 1 of that Act is in force