{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/section-59A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990/section-59A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/43",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Protection Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-act-1990",
  "path": "section/59A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59A",
  "heading": "Directions in relation to exercise of powers under section 59 , 59ZA, 59ZB or 59ZC",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may issue directions setting out categories of waste to which a waste regulation authority or waste collection authority in England and Wales should give priority for the purposes of exercising its powers under section 59 , 59ZA, 59ZB or 59ZC above.\n(2) Priorities set out in directions under subsection (1) above may be different for different authorities or areas.\n(3) But nothing in this section or in any directions issued under it affects any power of an authority under section 59 , 59ZA, 59ZB or 59ZC above.\n(4) A waste regulation authority shall publicise any direction given to it under subsection (1) above in such manner as it considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 59A inserted (E.W.) (31.3.2004) by Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (c. 38), ss. 55(4), 93; S.I. 2004/690, art. 3; S.I. 2004/999, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 59A(1) inserted (E.W.) (9.5.2018) by The Waste Enforcement (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/369), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 3(b) (with reg. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 59A(3) inserted (E.W.) (9.5.2018) by The Waste Enforcement (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/369), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 3(b) (with reg. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 59A(4) inserted (6.4.2008) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3538), reg. 73, Sch. 21 para. 16 (with reg 72, Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 59A heading inserted (E.W.) (9.5.2018) by The Waste Enforcement (England and Wales) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/369), reg. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 3(a) (with reg. 4(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/43/section/59A",
    "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."
}