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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/schedule-23/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025/schedule-23/paragraph-23.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111062319",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "schedule/23/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "New waste carriers, brokers and dealers",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding the coming into force of these Regulations, new applications for authorisation in relation to the collection and transportation of waste or acting as a broker or dealer may only be made under the 2018 Regulations on or after 1 April 2026.\n(2) During the period between and including 1 November 2025 and 31 March 2026, new applications for authorisation must be made in accordance with this sub-paragraph—\n(a) in relation to the collection and transportation of waste—\n(i) for registration as a waste carrier under the 1991 Regulations, or\n(ii) for a registration as a PCTW under paragraph 12 of schedule 4 of the 2011 Regulations,\n(b) in relation to acting as a broker or dealer, for registration as a broker or dealer under regulation 30 and paragraph 3 of schedule 5 of the 2011 Regulations.\n(3) Registrations granted in accordance with—\n(a) sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i), are to be treated as an existing waste carrier registration and as if in effect immediately before the relevant date,\n(b) sub-paragraph (2)(a)(ii), are to be treated as an existing PCTW registration and as if in effect immediately before the relevant date,\n(c) sub-paragraph (2)(b), are to be treated as an existing registration as a broker or dealer, and as if in effect immediately before the relevant date.\n(4) Notwithstanding the revocation of the 1989 Act and the 2011 Regulations—\n(a) sections 2, 3 and 4 of the 1989 Act,\n(b) regulations 1 to 18, and schedules 2 and 3, of the 1991 Regulations, and\n(c) regulation 30 and schedules 4 and 5 of the 2011 Regulations,\ncontinue to have effect in relation to any applications for registration made in accordance with this paragraph until the application has been concluded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sections 2, 3 and 4 were amended by the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43), schedule 15. Section 2 and 4 were amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), schedule 22, paragraph 37. Section 3 was amended by the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, section 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111062319/schedule/23/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:44.917910+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."
}