{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2005/300",
  "legislation_title": "The Hazardous Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hazardous-waste-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Meaning of hazardous waste",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 10, a waste is a hazardous waste if it is for the time being—\n(a) featured in the List of Wastes as a hazardous waste; or\n(b) any other waste which (being a waste considered to display one or more of the properties listed in Annex III) is a hazardous waste pursuant to regulation 8; and\n(c) a specific waste which, though of a type indicated in the List of Wastes as non-hazardous, is determined pursuant to regulation 9 to be a hazardous waste,\nand the term “hazardous” and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 16.7.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Wastes listed as hazardous in the List of Wastes are considered hazardous pursuant to the first indent of Article 1.4 of the Hazardous Waste Directive and the European Waste Catalogue"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "A waste which a member state considers displays any of the properties in Annex III is a hazardous waste pursuant to the second indent of Article 1.4 of the Hazardous Waste Directive"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "A specific waste which though not indicated in the List of Wastes as hazardous may br considered pursuant to Article 3 of the List of Wastes Decision to be hazardous if it displays one or more of the properties in Annex III"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/300/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:51:48.489924+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."
}