{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-1994/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-1994/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1056",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-management-licensing-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Relevant offences",
  "text": "An offence is relevant for the purposes of section 74(3)(a) of the 1990 Act if it is an offence under any of the following enactments—\n(a) section 22 of the Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897;\n(b) section 95(1) of the Public Health Act 1936;\n(c) section 3, 5(6), 16(4), 18(2), 31(1), 32(1), 34(5), 78, 92(6) or 93(3) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974;\n(d) section 2 of the Refuse Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978;\n(e) the Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980;\n(f) section 9(1) of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985;\n(g) the Transfrontier Shipment of Hazardous Waste Regulations 1988;\n(h) the Merchant Shipping (Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) Regulations 1988;\n(i) section 1, 5, 6(9) or 7(3) of the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989;\n(j) section 107, 118(4) or 175(1) of the Water Act 1989;\n(k) section 23(1), 33, 34(6), 44, 47(6), 57(5), 59(5), 63(2), 69(9), 70(4), 71(3) or 80(4) of the 1990 Act;\n(l) section 85, 202 or 206 of the Water Resources Act 1991;\n(m) section 33 of the Clean Air Act 1993.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1897 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1936 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1974 c. 40; sections 31(1), 32(1) and 34(5) are substituted by paragraph 4 of Schedule 23 to the Water Act 1989 (c. 15)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1978 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1985 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1562."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/2292."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1989 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1993 c. 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/972",
      "affecting_title": "The Special Waste Regulations 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1973",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1994/1137",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 1994"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/894",
      "affecting_title": "The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales)Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2005/1806",
      "affecting_title": "The Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2003/235",
      "affecting_title": "The Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2006/128",
      "affecting_title": "The Waste Management Licensing (Water Environment) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1559",
      "affecting_title": "The Landfill (England and Wales) Regulations 2002 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1056/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:34:38.371738+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."
}