Regulation 8 Amendment of Regulation 1: Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

insert the following definitions at the appropriate places—

• ““agriculture” has the same meaning as in the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949;

• “agricultural waste” means waste from premises used for agriculture within the meaning of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949;

• “Directive waste” means any substance or object in the categories set out in Schedule 1 to the 1997 Order which the producer or the person in possession of it discards or intends or is required to discard but with the exception of anything excluded from the scope of the Directive by Article 2 of the Directive, “producer” means anyone whose activities produce Directive waste or who carries out pre-processing, mixing or other operations resulting in a change in its nature or composition;

• “mines or quarries waste” means waste from a mine or quarry;

• “plant tissue” means tissue from a plant and “plant” has the same meaning as in Article 2 of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2006”; and

for the definition of “the Community Regulation” substitute—

• ““the Community Regulation” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003;”.