Greater London Authority Act 1999

353 The Mayor’s municipal waste management strategy. E+W+S

(1) The Mayor shall prepare and publish a document to be known as the “municipal waste management strategy”.

(2) The municipal waste management strategy—

(a) shall contain the Mayor’s proposals and policies for the recovery, treatment and disposal of municipal waste, and

(b) may contain such other proposals and policies relating to municipal waste as he considers appropriate.

(3) In preparing the municipal waste management strategy the Mayor is to have regard to the plans prepared by waste collection authorities in Greater London in accordance with section 49 of the M1 Environmental Protection Act 1990 (waste recycling plans).

(4) In preparing or revising the municipal waste management strategy the Mayor shall have regard to—

(a) the strategy prepared by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 44A of the M2 Environmental Protection Act 1990 (the national waste strategy),

[F1 (aa) the strategy required by section 17 of the Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (landfill strategy for England),]and

(b) any guidance given to him by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the implementation of [F2 that strategy] [F2 those strategies (or either of them) ] and relating to the content of the municipal waste management strategy.

(5) In preparing or revising the municipal waste management strategy the Mayor shall consult—

(a) the Environment Agency,

(b) waste disposal authorities in Greater London,

(c) any waste disposal authority the area of which has a boundary which adjoins any part of the boundary of Greater London,

(d) local authorities in whose areas municipal waste is disposed of by waste disposal authorities in Greater London or is proposed in the strategy to be so disposed of, and

(e) any other body which is concerned with the minimisation, recovery, treatment or disposal of municipal waste and which the Mayor considers it appropriate to consult.

(6) Where the Mayor revises the municipal waste management strategy, he shall publish it as revised.

(7) In this Act, references to the municipal waste management strategy include, except where the context otherwise requires, a reference to the municipal waste management strategy as revised.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 353(4)(aa) inserted (E.W.) (20.7.2004) by Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c. 33), ss. 17(8)(a), 40(1); S.I. 2004/1874, art. 2

F2 Words in s. 353(4)(b) substituted (E.W.) (20.7.2004) by Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 (c. 33), ss. 17(8)(b), 40(1); S.I. 2004/1874, art. 2

Marginal Citations

M1 1990 c. 43.

M2 1990 c. 43.