10.—(1) A waste disposal authority which achieved, in the financial year beginning with 1st April 1998—
(a)a recycling and composting rate specified in column (1) of Part I of Schedule 8 to this Order shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2003 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Part;
(b)a recycling and composting rate specified in column (1) of Part II of that Schedule shall, in relation to indicators 1 and 2 in Schedule 7 (taken together) meet for the financial year beginning with 1st April 2005 the standard specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of that Part.
(2) For the purposes of this article, the recycling and composting rate for an authority is that which is set out for the authority in the document published by the DETR entitled “Guidance on Municipal Waste Management Strategies”(1) (published on 5th March 2001); and an authority which is stated in that document to have failed to supply to the DETR adequate details of the recycling and composting rates is treated for the purposes of—
(a)paragraph (1)(a) of this article and Part I of Schedule 8 to this Order as having a recycling and composting rate of 16% or more; and
(b)paragraph (1)(b) of this article and Part II of that Schedule as having a recycling and composting rate of 19% or more.
(3) For the purposes of this article “waste authority” means a waste collection or a waste disposal authority.
“Municipal Waste Management Strategies” is published by the DETR 5th March 2001. The document is available free of charge from: DTLR, PO Box 236, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7NB.