{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Waste Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Certain radioactive waste to be special waste",
  "text": "Section 62 (special provision with respect to certain dangerous and intractable waste) of the 1990 Act shall have effect, without modification, so as to empower the Secretary of State to make provision for waste which would be controlled waste but for the fact that it is radioactive waste within the meaning of the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 ; and paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 2 regulations 2 to 2B shall apply to any such waste as if it were controlled waste.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (16.7.2005) by The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales)Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/894), reg. 76 (with reg. 75) and Regulations revoked (W.) (16.7.2005) by The Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1806), reg. 72(1) (with reg. 72(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (S.) (1.9.2018) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/219), reg. 1, sch. 6 para. 6(3) (with reg. 78, sch. 5 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 substituted (S.) (1.7.2004) by The Special Waste Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/112), regs. 1(2), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 62 is amended by paragraph 80 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c.25)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/972/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:11.731187+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."
}