Public Places or Areas (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2025

L.N. 272 of 2025

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Abandonment, Dumping and Disposal of Waste in Streets and

Public Places or Areas (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 54 and 55 of

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister responsible for the

environment, after consultation with the Environment and Resources

Authority, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Abandonment, Citation and

Dumping and Disposal of Waste in Streets and Public Places or Areas commencement.

(Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2025 and these regulations shall be

read and construed as one with the Abandonment, Dumping and S.L. 549.40.

Disposal of Waste in Streets and Public Places or Areas Regulations,

hereinafter referred to as the "principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force within two (2)

months from their publication in the Gazette.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 2 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) immediately after the definition "the Authority" there

shall be added the following new definition

" "balloon" means any type of balloon filled with gas,

excluding balloons for industrial or other professional uses

and applications that are not distributed to consumers;";

(b) immediately after the definition "officer" there shall

be added the following new definition

" "open air" includes any open space and any covered

place which is exposed to the open air on at least one

side;";

(c) immediately after the definition "organiser" there

shall be added the following new definition

" "plastic confetti" means pieces or streamers made

wholly or partly from plastic;".

Immediately after regulation 4B of the principal regulations

there shall be added the following new regulations

No person shall release or cause to be released

"Unlawful

release of

any plastic confetti into the open air.

plastic

confetti.

The deliberate release of balloons in open air

Unlawful

release of

events shall be prohibited

balloons.

Provided that this shall not be applicable

where the balloons are sufficiently weighted in a manner

that prevents their release into the environment outside

the event organiser’s control."

4. In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 10 of the principal

regulations the words "in regulations 4, 5 and 8" shall be substituted by

the words "in regulations 4, 4C, 4D, 5 and 8".

In sub-regulation (3) of regulation 12 of the principal

regulations the words "regulations 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8" shall be substituted

by the words "regulations 4, 4C, 4D, 5, 6, 7 and 8".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 15 of the principal

regulations the words "under in regulations 4, 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9"

shall be substituted by the words "under regulations 4, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D,

5, 6, 7, 8 and 9".

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