The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
Northern Ireland Order in Council 1997 No. 2778 — creates 28 criminal offences.
- Made
- 26 November 1997
- In force from
- Not determined
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Alcohol licensing, gambling, smoke-free and public health
- Made under
- Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order— a re-enacts the provisions of Part II of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 relating to waste on land with modifications as respects the functions of the Department of the Environment and district councils concerned in the collection and disposal of waste and makes further provision in relation to such waste; b makes provision with respect to land contaminated by pollution; c makes provision for the control of the use, supply or storage of prescribed substances and articles; and d confers powers to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances.
Offences created by this instrument
- Revocation and suspension of licences article 12 · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Revocation and suspension of licences article 12(12) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Revocation and suspension of licences article 12(13) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- A person who— a in purported compliance with a requirement to furnish any information imposed by or under any… article 18(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- A person who intentionally makes a false entry in any record required to be kept by virtue of a licence shall be… article 18(2) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Receptacles for household waste article 21(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Receptacles for commercial or industrial waste article 22(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Power of Department to require waste to be accepted, treated, disposed of or delivered article 27(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Powers to require removal of waste unlawfully deposited article 28(5) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Powers to require removal of waste unlawfully deposited article 28(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Interference with waste sites and receptacles for waste article 29(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Special provision with respect to certain dangerous or intractable waste article 30(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Special provision with respect to certain dangerous or intractable waste article 30(2)(g) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Regulations under this Article may provide that a person who contravenes a specified provision of the regulations or… article 32(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- No offence under the regulations shall be made punishable with imprisonment for more than 2 years or punishable on… article 32(7) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Power to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances article 33(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Power to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances article 33(3)(h) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Subject to the following provisions of this Article, if any person who is not a registered carrier of controlled… article 38(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Prohibition on unauthorised or harmful deposit, treatment or disposal, etc., of waste article 4(6) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Duty to produce authority to transport controlled waste article 42(4) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Seizure and disposal of vehicles used for illegal waste disposal article 43(9) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- Obtaining of information article 44(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Duty of care, etc., as respects waste article 5(8) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- If a person on whom an enforcing authority serves a remediation notice fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply… article 59(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Waste management licences: general article 6(7) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- It is an offence for a person intentionally to obstruct an authorised person in the exercise or performance of his… article 74(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
- It is an offence for a person, without reasonable excuse,— a to fail to comply with any requirement imposed under… article 74(2) · Status not determined · Strict liability
- It is an offence for a person falsely to pretend to be an authorised person article 74(3) · Status not determined · Strict liability
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1997