Statutory Instruments
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Made
9th March 1998
Laid before Parliament
11th March 1998
Coming into force
1st April 1998
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 52(8) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.
2. For the Schedule to the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992(2) there shall be substituted-
Regulation 2(5)
Type of waste disposal authority | Saving in waste disposal costs per tonne |
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A London waste disposal authority for an area which includes an inner London borough. The council of an inner London borough. The Common Council of the City of London. | £46.18 |
A London waste disposal authority which comprises outer London boroughs. The council of an outer London borough. | £40.27 |
The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority. The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority. The council of a metropolitan district. | £33.21 |
Any other waste disposal authority. | £26.26 where the authority incurs any transport costs in disposing of similar waste and £17.87 in other cases." |
3. Regulation 3 of the Waste Management (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1977(3) (which last substituted a new Schedule to the 1992 Regulations) is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Angela Eagle
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
4th March 1998
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
6th March 1998
Sewel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
9th March 1998
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 52(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires waste disposal authorities to pay waste collection authorities amounts representing their net savings on the disposal of waste retained by collection authorities for recycling.
Section 52(3) of that Act confers a power on waste disposal authorities to pay persons other than waste collection authorities equivalent amounts of waste collected by them for recycling.
The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992 made provision for the determination of a waste disposal authority's net saving of expenditure for the purposes of section 52(1) or (3) of that Act in relation to such waste. The Schedule to those Regulations provided figures for determining a waste authority's net saving of expenditure where this could not otherwise be determined because sufficient accurate information was not available, or could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. These Regulations increase those figures to take account of rises in the retail price index.