{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2011/9780111506462",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-waste-england-and-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Requirement for waste management plans",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority must ensure that there are one or more plans containing policies in relation to waste management in England or Wales, as the case may be (each a “waste management plan”).\n(2) A waste management plan may form part of a document and, where this is the case, any requirement of law in relation to the plan applies only to that part.\n(3) In this Part—\n(a) “England” includes the sea adjacent to England out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea;\n(b) “Wales” includes the sea adjacent to Wales out as far as the seaward boundary of the territorial sea;\n(c) the sea adjacent to England is so much of the sea adjacent to Great Britain as is not the sea adjacent to Wales or the sea adjacent to Scotland;\n(d) the sea adjacent to Wales has the same meaning as it has by virtue of section 158(3) or (4) of the Government of Wales Act 2006; and\n(e) the sea adjacent to Scotland has the same meaning as the internal waters and territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland by virtue of section 126(2) of the Scotland Act 1998.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.32. The boundary between the sea adjacent to Wales and that adjacent to England is described by article 6 and Schedule 3 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672). By virtue of section 162 of and paragraph 26 of Schedule 11 to the 2006 Act, S.I. 1999/672 continues to have effect."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c.46. The boundaries between waters which are to be treated as internal waters or territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Scotland and those which are not are set out in the Scottish Adjacent Water Boundaries Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/1126)."
    }
  ],
  "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."
}