# The Prescribed Waste (Wales) Regulations 2001, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations allow the National Assembly for Wales to direct by written notice the holder of a waste management licence to accept and keep, or accept and treat or dispose of the carcasses (or parts of carcasses) of certain types of animal which have been slaughtered as a result of measures taken in connection with foot-and-mouth disease. The relevant types of animal are cattle (if born on or after 1st August 1996), sheep, other ruminating animals or swine. Directions may also be given in relation to ash or rendered material resulting from the burning or rendering of the carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle (of any age), sheep, other ruminating animals or swine where such animals have been slaughtered as a result of the containment measures.
The extension by these Regulations of the types of waste which may be the subject of a direction of the National Assembly under section 57(1) & (2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 described above will have effect throughout the whole of Wales. A licence holder will not be guilty of a criminal offence under any of the specified provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and the Environmental Protection Act 1990 by reason only of anything necessarily done or omitted to comply with a direction under section 57(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
The Regulations will cease to have effect on 20th July 2001 unless previously extended or revoked.
A waste management licence holder convicted of failing to comply with a direction under section 57(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 without reasonable excuse is liable to a fine of up to £5000.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/1506/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/prescribed-waste-wales-regulations-2001/note
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