{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1997/2778",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-contaminated-land-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Waste other than controlled waste",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A person who deposits, or knowingly causes or knowingly permits the deposit of, any waste—\n(a) which is not controlled waste, but\n(b) which, if it were controlled waste, would be hazardous waste,\nin a case where he would be guilty of an offence under Article 4 if the waste were hazardous waste and any management licence were not in force, shall, subject to paragraph (3), be guilty of that offence and punishable as if the waste were hazardous waste.\n(3) No offence is committed under paragraph (2) if the act charged was done under and in accordance with any consent, licence, approval or authority granted under any statutory provision (excluding any planning permission under the Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 .)\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 31(1)(4) repealed (31.7.2006) by S.R. 2006/280, reg. 2(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 2005/300"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(3) substituted (13.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in operation) by Planning Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 25), s. 254(1)(2), Sch. 6 para. 87 (with s. 211); S.R. 2015/49, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 1 (with Sch. 2 (as amended (16.3.2016) by S.R. 2016/159, art. 2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/2778/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:15.100824+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."
}