{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/496",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Classification of landfills",
  "text": "(1) Before granting a landfill permit, the Chief Inspector shall classify the landfill –\n(a) as a landfill for hazardous waste;\n(b) as a landfill for non-hazardous waste; or\n(c) as a landfill for inert waste,\nand shall ensure that the classification is stated in the landfill permit.\n(2) Hazardous waste means any waste as defined in Article 1(4) of Council Directive 91/689/EEC of 12th December 1991 (hazardous waste).\n(3) Non-hazardous waste is waste which is not hazardous waste.\n(4) Waste is inert waste if –\n(a) it does not undergo any significant physical, chemical or biological transformations;\n(b) it does not dissolve, burn or otherwise physically or chemically react, biodegrade or adversely affect other matter with which it comes into contact in a way likely to give rise to environmental pollution or harm to human health; and\n(c) its total leachability and pollutant content and the ecotoxicity of its leachate are insignificant and, in particular, do not endanger the quality of any surface water or groundwater.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in operation at 6.1.2004, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L377, 31.12.91, p. 20 as amended by Council Directive 94/31/EC (O.J. No. L168, 2.7.94 p. 28)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2020/285",
      "affecting_title": "The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/496",
      "affecting_title": "The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2011/127",
      "affecting_title": "The Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/496/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:00:16.822578+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."
}