{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-regulations-2009/regulation-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-regulations-2009/regulation-56.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/890",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-batteries-and-accumulators-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Prohibition on disposing of waste automotive and industrial batteries in a landfill or by incineration",
  "text": "(1) No person may dispose of waste industrial or automotive batteries in a landfill or by incineration.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not affect the disposal of residues of any batteries that have undergone both treatment and recycling in accordance with these Regulations.\n(3) In this regulation, “landfill” has the meaning given in Article 2(g) of the Landfill Directive but does not include any operation excluded from the scope of that Directive by Article 3(2).\n(4) In paragraph (3), “the Landfill Directive” means Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste, as last amended by Directive (EU) 2018/850 , and as read in accordance with regulation 56A.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/890/regulation/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:13:11.355365+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."
}