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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order brings into operation on 19th August 1999 certain provisions of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 which enable the Department to establish a public register of waste carriers and make provision for persons involved in the transportation of controlled waste to register with the Department as carriers of such waste and other ancillary provisions relating to such carriers.

This Order also brings into operation on 11th March 2000 the remaining provisions of Articles 38 and 42 of the 1997 Order which make it an offence to transport controlled waste without being registered as a carrier or failing to comply with the requirement to produce authority for transporting such waste.