(1)If a waste collection authority submits to the Secretary of State proposals for a waste reduction scheme and the proposals are approved by the Secretary of State as suitable for piloting one or more aspects of the waste reduction provisions—
(a)the Secretary of State may by order designate the area of that authority as a pilot area, and
(b)the authority may make a scheme in accordance with the proposals.
(2)Not more than five areas may be so designated.
(3)The order designating a pilot area shall provide that the waste reduction provisions have effect in relation to that area, for the purpose of enabling the authority to make and operate the proposed scheme, for such period as may be specified in the order.
(4)Any power to make subordinate legislation or issue guidance under the waste reduction provisions—
(a)may be exercised so as to make different provision for different pilot areas, and
(b)may be exercised at any time after the coming into force of this section.
(5)If a draft of an instrument containing such subordinate legislation would, apart from this subsection, be treated for the purposes of the standing orders of either House of Parliament as a hybrid instrument, it is to proceed in that House as if it were not such an instrument.