# The Waste Management Licensing (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022, Regulation 5: Amendment of regulation 5 (Pre-qualification technical competence)

Extent: N.I.

(1) For regulation 5 (Pre-qualification technical competence) substitute—
“5. (1) Where—
(a) a person has applied to
(i) CIWM for an Operator Competence Certificate to carry on the specific activities which are authorised by a waste management licence; or
(ii) EU Skills for a Competence Management System Certification;
(b) an application has been made for a waste management license to authorise activities whose management is intended to be in that person’s hands;
(c) the activities mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) are to be carried on at a facility of the same type as that in relation to which the application mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) was made; and
(d) the Department is satisfied that but for regulation 3 he would be a technically competent person,
then, in relation to the facility in respect of which the application mentioned in sub-paragraph (c) was made and until the expiry of two years from the grant of a licence pursuant to that application, regulation 3 shall not apply to that person and that person shall be treated as technically competent for the purposes of Article 3(3)(b) of the 1997 order.
(2) Paragraph 1 does not include activities carried out at any type of landfill site.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2022/288/regulation/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2022/regulation-5
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