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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-regulations-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-4/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/496",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
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  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Existing landfills: transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall by notice in writing served on the operator not later than the expiry of one month after the relevant date, classify any landfill which appears to it to require classification as a landfill for hazardous waste.\n(2) If a landfill classified under sub-paragraph (1) as a landfill for hazardous waste ceases to accept hazardous waste in accordance with the conditioning plan required under paragraph 1(3), the Department may at any time before 16th July 2004 by notice in writing served on the operator revoke the classification made under sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) The following provisions of these Regulations shall impose obligations directly on the operator of any landfill which is for the time being classified under sub-paragraph (1) as a landfill for hazardous waste pending determination of an application made pursuant to paragraph 1(9) –\n(a) on or after the relevant date, regulation 12 (Waste acceptance procedures); and\n(b) on or after 16th July 2004, regulation 10(1) and (2) (Waste which may be accepted in the different classes of landfill ).\n(4) For the purposes of applying regulation 9(1)(g) under sub-paragraph (3)(a)(i) in relation to the period beginning on the relevant date and ending on 15th July 2004, only the criteria in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 are to be treated as relevant waste acceptance criteria.\n(5) The operator of a landfill which is not classified as a landfill for hazardous waste shall only accept hazardous waste at that landfill on or after the relevant date in the circumstances specified in regulation 10(3)(c) and (4).",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
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      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 3 in operation at 6.1.2004, see reg. 1"
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