{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-act-1974/section-5", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-act-1974/section-5.json", "legislation": "ukpga/1974/40", "legislation_title": "Control of Pollution Act 1974", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-pollution-act-1974", "path": "section/5", "kind": "section", "number": "5", "heading": "Licences to dispose of waste.", "text": "(1) An application for a disposal licence in respect of any land in the area of a disposal authority must be made in writing to the authority . . .\n(2) A disposal licence shall not be issued for a use of land, plant or equipment for which planning permission is required in pursuance of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or, in Scotland, the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 unless such permission is in force; . . .\n(3) Where an application has been received for a disposal licence for a use of land, plant or equipment for which such planning permission as aforesaid is in force, it shall be the duty of the appropriate Agency not to reject the application unless that Agency is satisfied that its rejection is necessary for the purpose of preventing pollution of water or danger to public health.\n(4) Where the appropriate Agency proposes to issue a disposal licence, it shall be the duty of that Agency before it does so—\n(a) to refer the proposal to any collection authority whose area includes any part of the relevant land; and\n(b) to consider any representations about the proposal which, during the period of twenty-one days beginning with that on which the proposal is received by a body . . . mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection or during such longer period as that Agency and that body . . . agree in writing, that Agency receives from that body . . . (including in particular any representations about the conditions which that body . . . considers should be specified in the licence);\n. . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) A person who, in an application for a disposal licence, makes any statement which he knows to be false in a material particular or recklessly makes any statement which is false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £400 or on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both.", "extent": "E+W+S", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "S. 5 repealed (1.5.1994 save in respect of specified activities, as to which in force as provided by S.I. 1994/1096, art. 3, 1.4.2015 for S. in so far as not already in force) by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43), s. 162, Sch. 16 Pt. II; S.I. 1994/1096, arts. 2, 3 (as amended by S.I. 1994/2487, art. 2 and S.I. 1994/3234, art. 2), S.S.I. 2015/72, art. 2(2)(a)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Words repealed by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), Sch. 34 Pt. II" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F3", "text": "Words substituted by Planning (Consequential Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 11, SIF 123:1, 2), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 31(1)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F4", "text": "Words in s. 5(2) substituted (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 4, 6(2), Sch. 2 para. 23" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F5", "text": "Words in s. 5(3) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), SCh. 22 para. 19(2)(a)(b) (Sch. 22 para. 19 isprospectively repealed by Sch. 24 of the same 1995 Act) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F6", "text": "Words in s. 5(4) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 19(3)(a)(b)(d) (Sch. 22 para. 19 isprospectively repealed by Sch. 24 of the same 1995 Act) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F7", "text": "S. 5(4)(a) substituted (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 19(3)(c) (Sch. 22 para. 19 isprospectively repealed by Sch. 24 of the same 1995 Act) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F8", "text": "Words following s. 5(4)(b) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1)(3), Sch. 22 para. 19(3)(e), Sch. 24 (Sch. 22 para. 19 isprospectively repealed by Sch. 24 of the same 1995 Act) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F9", "text": "S. 5(5) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1)(3), Sch. 22 para. 19(4), Sch. 24 (Sch. 22 para. 19 isprospectively repealed by Sch. 24 of the same 1995 Act)(with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3" }, { "type": "C", "label": "C1", "text": "Ss. 3-10: functions transferred (12.10.1995) by 1995 c. 25, s. 21(1)(c) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1995/2649, art. 2" }, { "type": "C", "label": "C2", "text": "S. 5(2) modified (E.W.) by Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8), s. 191(7)(b) (as substituted (25.11.1991 for specified purposes, 27.7.1992 otherwise) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), s. 10(1) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1991/2728, art. 2; S.I. 1992/1630, art. 2 (with art. 3)" }, { "type": "C", "label": "C3", "text": "S. 5(2) modified (S.) by Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 52), s. 90(7)(b) (as substituted (10.8.1992 for specified purposes, 25.9.1992 otherwise) by Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), ss. 42(1), 84(2) (with s. 84(5)); S.I. 1992/1937, arts. 3, 4 (with art. 5))S. 5(2) extended (27.5.1997) (S.) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 150(7)(b), 278(2)" } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/40/section/5", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:34:27.095596+00:00" }, "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0", "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/", "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives." }