{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/section-33A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/section-33A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/43",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Protection Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990",
  "path": "section/33A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33A",
  "heading": "Section 33 offences: investigation and enforcement costs",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a person is convicted of an offence—\n(a) under section 33 above, in respect of a contravention of subsection (1) of that section;\n(b) under regulation 38(1) of the Environmental Permitting Regulations, in respect of a waste operation or a mining waste operation.\n(2) The court by or before which the offender is convicted may make an order requiring him to pay to an enforcement authority a sum which appears to the court not to exceed the costs arising from—\n(a) investigations of the enforcement authority which resulted in the conviction; and\n(b) the seizure by the enforcement authority under section 34B below of a vehicle involved in the offence.\n(3) The costs arising from the seizure of a vehicle as specified in subsection (2)(b) above may include the cost of disposing of the contents of the vehicle.\n(4) The power of a court to make an order under this section is in addition to its power to make an order under section 18 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 (award of costs against accused).\n(5) In this section “enforcement authority” means the Environment Agency , the Natural Resources Body for Wales or a waste collection authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 33A inserted (E.W.) (18.10.2005) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 (c. 16), ss. 42(1), 108 (with s. 42(2)); S.I. 2005/2896, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 33A(1) substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2008) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3538), reg. 73, Sch. 21 para. 5 (with reg. 72, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 33A(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2010) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), regs. 1(1)(b), 107, Sch. 26 para. 5(6)(a) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 33A(1) inserted (E.W.) (7.7.2009) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations (S.I. 2009/1799), reg. 28, {Sch. 2 para. 1(4)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 33A(5) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 209 (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 33-34C applied (29.3.2011) by The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/988), regs. 1(2), 47(3) (with regs. 2, 47(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/section/33A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T07:28:13.995767+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."
}