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The Waste and Contaminated Land (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

S.R. 1998/390 · Made 9 November 1998

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Made 9th November 1998

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 1(2) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997f1 and paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974f2 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1997/2778 (N.I. 19)

f2

1974 c. 28

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Appointed Day
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This order may be cited as the Waste and Contaminated Land (1997 Order) (Commencement No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998.

2Appointed Day

The following provisions of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 shall come into operation on 1st December 1998–

  • Articles 2(2) (in so far as it relates to the definitions of “environment”, “harm”, “harmless”, “pollution of the environment”, “prescribed”, “substance”, “recover”, “waste” and “the Waste Directive”), and (6),

  • Article 19,

  • Article 32,

  • Article 33,

  • Schedule 1,

  • Schedule 3.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

R. W. Rogers

Assistant Secretary

9th November 1998.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This order brings into operation on the 1st day of December 1998 certain provisions of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 which enable the Department to make a Waste Strategy and which empower the Department to control the marketing and use of injurious substances and to obtain information about potentially hazardous substances.