{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-materials-facilities-regulations-northern-ireland-2025/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/18",
  "legislation_title": "The Waste (Materials Facilities) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-materials-facilities-regulations-northern-ireland-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "text": "The Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 are amended as follows––\n(1) In regulation 1(3)––\n(a) after the definition of “exempt activity” insert––\n““fibre-based composite material” means packaging material which is made of paperboard or paper fibres, with a layer of plastic, and which may also have layers of other materials, to form a single unit that cannot be separated by hand;”;\n(b) after the definition of “industrial battery or accumulator” insert––\n““materials facility” means––\n(a) a facility or part of a facility where waste material is received in order to-–\n(i) separate it into specified output material; or\n(ii) consolidate it into bulk quantities (whether as a first point of consolidation for such waste or following the first consolidation of bulk quantities transferred from other suppliers);\nfor the purpose of selling it, or transferring it to other facilities or persons to enable that material to be prepared for re-use or recycling;\n(b) any reference to a “materials facility” excludes a facility or part of a facility––\n(i) at which all the waste material received during a reporting period is attributable exclusively to a single supplier, unless the waste material so received is separated into specified output material at that facility;\n(ii) that is provided pursuant to arrangements made under section 25(1)(b) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997;\n(iii) that undertakes the processing or sorting of waste electrical and electronic equipment, waste batteries or accumulators;\n“Materials Facilities Code” means the Code of Practice on Sampling and Reporting at Materials Facilities issued by the Department on 31st January 2025;”;\n(c) after the definition of “scrap metal” insert––\n““specified output material” means a batch of material (whether or not waste) that is—\n(a) produced from a separating process for waste material; and\n(b) made up of one or more of the following kinds of material—\n(i) glass;\n(ii) metal;\n(iii) paper;\n(iv) card;\n(v) plastic;\n(vi) fibre-based composite material;”;\n(d) after the definition of ““waste electrical and electronic equipment” or “WEEE”” insert––\n““waste material” means waste that—\n(a) is household waste, or originates from a source other than household waste but is similar to household waste in terms of its nature or composition;\n(b) has been separately collected (whether as a single kind of material or two or more kinds of material mixed together) for the primary purpose of preparing it for re-use or recycling; and\n(c) consists (whether wholly or in part) of any of the following kinds of material—\n(i) glass;\n(ii) metal;\n(iii) paper;\n(iv) card;\n(v) plastic;\n(vi) fibre-based composite material;”.\n(2) After regulation 11D insert––\n“Conditions of waste management licences: Materials facilities\n11E. The Department shall ensure that any waste management licence granted or varied on or after 1st April 2025 authorising the treatment of waste material at a materials facility contains a condition requiring the holder of the licence to comply with the Materials Facilities Code.”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in operation at 1.4.2025, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2003 No. 493 as amended by S.R. 2006 No. 519 and S.R. 2009 No. 159."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2025/18/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:26:54.462226+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."
}