The Local Authorities (Prohibition of Charging Residents to Deposit Household Waste) Order 2015

• Citation: S.I. 2015/973
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Prohibition of Charging Residents to Deposit Household Waste) Order 2015.

(2) This Order shall come into force on the twenty eighth day after the day on which it is made.

Section 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

“household waste” has the same meaning as in section 75 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 as read with regulation 3 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Controlled Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2012 ; and

“household waste recycling centre” means a place provided by a local authority where persons resident in its area may deposit their household waste.

Section 3 Prohibition of local authorities using the general power of competence to charge residents at places where they may deposit household waste

A local authority must not, in exercise of the general power, charge persons resident in its area to—

(a) enter into, or exit from, a household waste recycling centre; or

(b) deposit household waste at a household waste recycling centre.

Section 4 Transitional provision

(1) The prohibition contained in article 3, which prevents local authorities using the general power, does not apply in the relevant circumstances until 1st April 2020.

(2) In paragraph (1) the relevant circumstances are that immediately before this Order came into force a local authority was, in exercise of the general power, charging persons resident in its area to—

(a) enter into, or exit from, a household waste recycling centre; or

(b) deposit household waste at a household waste recycling centre.