The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (Amendment) Regulations 2005

• Citation: S.I. 2005/187
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 1st March 2005.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations, “the 1994 Regulations ” means the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 1994 .

(2) The expressions “notifier”, “notification”, “competent authority of dispatch” and “competent authority of destination” used in these Regulations shall have the meanings they bear in Council Regulation ( EEC ) No. 259/93 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community .

Section 3 Amendment of the 1994 Regulations

For paragraph (b) of regulation 3 of the 1994 Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraph–

(b) in Northern Ireland, the Department of the Environment.

Section 4 Amendment of the 1994 Regulations

For paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 15 of the 1994 Regulations there shall be substituted the following paragraphs–

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person who commits an offence under regulation 12 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.

(2) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (8) of regulation 12 above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

Section 5 Transitional arrangements

Notwithstanding regulation 3, where a notifier has made a notification to a district council within the meaning of section 1 of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 , the receipt of which has been acknowledged by the council before the day on which these Regulations come into force, that district council shall continue to be the competent authority of dispatch or competent authority of destination in Northern Ireland in relation to that notification for the purposes of the 1994 Regulations.