Regulation 56 Prohibition on disposing of waste automotive and industrial batteries in a landfill or by incineration
England, Wales and Northern Ireland
No person may dispose of waste industrial or automotive batteries in a landfill or by incineration.
Paragraph (1) does not affect the disposal of residues of any batteries that have undergone both treatment and recycling in accordance with these Regulations.
In this regulation, “landfill” has the meaning given in Article 2(g) of F1the Landfill Directive but does not include any operation excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 3(2).
In paragraph (3), “the Landfill Directive” means Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, as last amended by F3Directive (EU) 2018/850 F4, and as read in accordance with regulation 56A.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 56(3) substituted (28.2.2019) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(a), 6(3)(a)
- F2
Reg. 56(4) inserted (28.2.2019) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(a), 6(3)(b)
- F3
Words in reg. 56(4) substituted (1.10.2020) by The Waste (Circular Economy) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/904), regs. 1(1), 13(3)
- F4
Words in reg. 56(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/188), regs. 1(2)(b), 14(8) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(2), 11(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)