Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2011 No. 127

Environmental Protection

The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Made

16th March 2011

Coming into operation

8th April 2011

The Department of the Environment having been designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution caused by waste and in relation to the environment.

The Department of the Environment acting in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by that section and by Articles 3(3)(a), 4(3), 5(7), 38(3)(a), 39(1), 39(3), 40(3), 48 and 77 of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997(3), hereby makes the following Regulations.