Version Superseded: 26/01/2009
Point in time view as at 31/05/1991.
Environmental Protection Act 1990, Paragraph 1 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 03 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
[F11(1)The purpose of a waste reduction scheme is to provide a financial incentive—E+W
(a)to produce less domestic waste, and
(b)to recycle more of what is produced,
and accordingly to reduce the amount of residual domestic waste.
(2)A waste reduction scheme—
(a)may cover the whole or any part of the area of a waste collection authority, and
(b)may apply to all domestic premises, to domestic premises other than those of a specified description or to specified descriptions of domestic premises.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2AA inserted (prospectively in accordance with ss. 72-75 of the amending Act) (E.W.) by Climate Change Act 2008 (c. 27), ss. 71, 100, Sch. 5 para. 1 and which amending provisions repealed (never in force) (15.1.2012) by Localism Act 2011 (c. 20), ss. 47, 240(1)(e), Sch. 25 Pt. 8
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