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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-landfill-england-and-wales-regulations-2002/regulation-8",
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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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Conditions to be included in landfill permits",
  "text": "(1) A landfill permit shall include conditions specifying the list of defined types, and the total quantity, of waste authorised to be deposited in the landfill.\n(2) A landfill permit shall also include appropriate conditions—\n(a) specifying requirements for—\n(i) preparations for, and the carrying out of, landfilling operations;\n(ii) monitoring and control procedures, including contingency plans;\n(b) ensuring that the financial provision required by regulation 4(3)(b) of the 2000 Regulations is maintained until the permit is surrendered in accordance with those Regulations;\n(c) ensuring that the landfill is operated in such a manner that the necessary measures are taken to prevent accidents and to limit their consequences; and\n(d) requiring the operator to report at least annually to the Environment Agency on—\n(i) the types and quantities of waste disposed of; and\n(ii) the results of the monitoring programme required by regulations 14 and 15.\n(3) A landfill permit shall also include—\n(a) appropriate conditions for ensuring compliance with the requirements of the following provisions of these Regulations—\n(i) Schedule 2 (general requirements for all landfills);\n(ii) regulation 9 (prohibition of acceptance of certain wastes at landfills);\n(iii) regulation 10 (waste which may be accepted in the different classes of landfill);\n(iv) regulation 11 (costs of disposal of waste in landfills);\n(v) regulation 12 (waste acceptance procedures);\n(vi) regulation 13 (initial site inspections by Environment Agency);\n(vii) regulation 14 (control and monitoring of operational landfill sites);\n(viii) regulation 15 (closure and after-care procedures for landfills); and\n(b) such other conditions as appear appropriate to the Environment Agency, including in particular conditions giving effect to—\n(i) any requirement imposed by Community or national legislation; and\n(ii) in the case of landfills falling within paragraph (a) of Part A(1) of Section 5.2 in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Regulations, the principle that energy should be used efficiently.\n(4) The provisions of these Regulations mentioned in paragraph (3)(a) above shall impose obligations directly on an operator of a landfill (rather than through the conditions of a landfill permit) only to the extent specified in paragraph 3(3) to (5) of Schedule 4.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 5 to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2002/0110395905/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:26:13.434889+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."
}