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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-landfill-england-and-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110395905",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-landfill-england-and-wales-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the 2000 Regulations” means the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000;\n“biodegradable waste” means any waste that is capable of undergoing anaerobic or aerobic decomposition, such as food or garden waste and paper and cardboard;\n“hazardous waste” has the meaning given by regulation 7(2);\n“holder” means the producer of waste or the person who is in possession of it;\n“inert waste” has the meaning given by regulation 7(4);\n“landfill” means a landfill to which these Regulations apply (see regulations 3 and 4);\n“landfill gas” means any gas generated from landfilled waste;\n“landfill permit” has the meaning given by regulation 6(2);\n“leachate” means any liquid percolating through deposited waste and emitted from or contained within a landfill;\n“municipal waste” means waste from households as well as other waste which because of its nature or composition is similar to waste from households;\n“non-hazardous waste” has the meaning given by regulation 7(3);\n“operator” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) and (2) of the 2000 Regulations;\n“relevant authorisation” means, in relation to a landfill, the landfill permit or waste management licence for the time being in force in relation to the landfill;\n“relevant waste acceptance criteria” means, in relation to a landfill, the waste acceptance criteria set out in Schedule 1 which apply to the class of landfill to which that landfill belongs;\n“treatment” means physical, thermal, chemical or biological processes (including sorting) that change the characteristics of waste in order to reduce its volume or hazardous nature, facilitate its handling or enhance recovery;\n“waste” means controlled waste within the meaning of section 75(4) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;\n“waste management licence” means a waste management licence within the meaning of Part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990; and\nother expressions used in these Regulations which are also used in Directive 99/31/EC on the landfill of waste shall have the same meaning as in that Directive.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2000/1973, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 c. 43 and see regulation 7A of S.I. 1992/588 as amended by S.I. 1993/566, regulations 1 and 24(8) of, and paragraph 9 of Schedule 4 to, S.I. 1994/1056 and the prospective amendments made to section 75 by paragraph 88 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L182, 16.7.1999, p.1; the Directive was designated by S.I. 2001/3585 as a relevant directive for the purposes of paragraph 20(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
}