PART 5Amendments to legislation concerning environmental protection

Environmental Protection Act 199012

1

The Environmental Protection Act 199049 is amended as follows.

2

After section 33(2C) (prohibition on unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment or disposal etc. of waste) insert—

2D

When interpreting the Batteries Directive for the purposes of this section, Article 2(2) is to be read as though for the words “Member States’” there were substituted “the United Kingdom’s”.