{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/section-44ZC",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/section-44ZC.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/43",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Protection Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990",
  "path": "section/44ZC",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44ZC",
  "heading": "Implementation of integrated waste management plan",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of a local authority—\n(a) to endeavour to carry out its waste management functions in accordance with its approved integrated waste management plan; and\n(b) if requested by the Scottish Ministers, to provide the Scottish Ministers, by the date specified in their request, with a statement setting out whether the local authority is so carrying out its waste management functions.\n(2) A statement provided under subsection (1)(b) above shall contain such information as the Scottish Ministers may direct.\n(3) Directions under subsection (2) above may, in particular, require a local authority to—\n(a) advise whether it has met, or is likely to meet, any performance targets set out in the plan; and\n(b) if it has not done so, or is not likely to do so, explain why it considers the performance targets have not been, or are not likely to be, met.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 44ZA-44ZD and preceding cross-heading inserted (S.) (1.4.2003) by Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 (asp 1), ss. 34(1), 62(2); S.S.I. 2003/134, art. 2(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/section/44ZC",
    "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."
}