# The Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, Regulation 48: Revocations, Consequential Amendments and Savings

Extent: N.I.

(1) The Special Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 are hereby revoked.
(2) Schedule 10 (which makes consequential amendments to the 1997 Order in Part 1 and to secondary legislation in Part 2) has effect.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the 1998 Regulations shall continue to have effect in relation to any hazardous waste in respect of which the consignment note (within the meaning of those Regulations) has been generated, in accordance with regulation 5 of those Regulations, before the coming into operation of these Regulations.
(4) In the event that a consignment of hazardous waste under a consignment note issued under the 1998 Regulations is refused or rejected by the consignee, and these Regulations have taken effect since the issue of that consignment note, notwithstanding paragraph (3) above, a new consignment note shall be issued in accordance with these Regulations.
(5) The requirements of Regulation 39(1) (“site records”) apply equally to records kept under the Special Waste Regulations 1998, notwithstanding paragraph (1) above.
(6) Consignment notes issued under the 1998 Regulations shall cease to have effect on 16th August 2005 and will not be valid for use on or after this date.
(7) Until the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which the Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 are made, the forms set out in these Regulations as originally enacted, or forms requiring the same information in substantially the same format, may be used instead of those substituted by the Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/300/regulation/48 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-48
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