The Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/251
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 28th February 1997.

Section 2 Transitional provisions for certificates of technical competence for handling special waste

In the Special Waste Regulations 1996 :

(a) in regulation 20(1)(b)(ii), for “5” there shall be substituted “5(1)”;

(b) after regulation 20, the following regulation shall be inserted:

Transitional provisions and “grandfather rights”

(20A) A person who by virtue of paragraph (2) of regulation 5 of the 1994 Regulations is treated as being technically competent for the purposes of section 74(3)(b) of the 1990 Act, shall continue to be so treated in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (4) of that regulation as if waste now defined as special waste within the meaning of regulation 20(1)(a) were not special waste.