Waste Management (Landfill) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

L.N. 70 of 2007

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 435)

Waste Management (Landfill) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 9 and 10(2) of

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister for Rural Affairs and

the Environment has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Waste Management

(Landfill) (Amendment) Regulations, 2007, and they shall be read

and construed as one with the Waste Management (Landfill)

2002. Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

Immediately after sub-regulation (3) of regulation 1 of the

principal regulations there shall be added the following new sub-

regulation

"(4) In respect of the technical

characteristics of landfills, these regulations

contain, for those landfills to which the

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control

L.N. 230 of 2004.

Regulations, 2002, are applicable, the

relevant technical requirements in order to

elaborate in concrete terms the general

requirements of those regulations. The

relevant requirements of the Integrated

Pollution Prevention and Control

Regulations, 2002, shall be deemed to be

fulfilled if the requirements of these

regulations are complied with.".

In regulation 4 of the principal regulations, for the words

"There shall be three classes of landfill:" there shall be substituted the

words "Each landfill shall be classified in one of the following

classes:".

Immediately after paragraph (b) of regulation 17 of the

principal regulations there shall be added the following new proviso

"Provided that the Competent Authority shall take

necessary measures to ensure that sites which have not been

granted, in accordance with regulation 10, a permit to continue

to operate, shall be closed down as soon as possible, in

accordance with regulations 9(g) and 16.".