{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/251",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions for certificates of technical competence for handling special waste",
  "text": "In the Special Waste Regulations 1996:\n(a) in regulation 20(1)(b)(ii), for “5” there shall be substituted “5(1)”;\n(b) after regulation 20, the following regulation shall be inserted:\n“Transitional provisions and “grandfather rights”\n20A A person who by virtue of paragraph (2) of regulation 5 of the 1994 Regulations is treated as being technically competent for the purposes of section 74(3)(b) of the 1990 Act, shall continue to be so treated in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (4) of that regulation as if waste now defined as special waste within the meaning of regulation 20(1)(a) were not special waste.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/972, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 5(2) was amended by regulation 2(3) of S.I. 1996/634 so as to alter the applicable dates in respect of managers of facilities at which activities were authorised by a resolution under section 11 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (1974 c. 40). See also the amendment to the definition of “special waste” made by Schedule 3 to S.I. 1996/972."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/251/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:22.599135+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."
}