Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 476

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made
27th February 1995

Laid before Parliament
8th March 1995

Coming into force
1st April 1995

The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 52(8) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st April 1995.

Amendment of regulations

2.  For the Schedule to the Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992(2), there shall be substituted the following:

Regulation 2(5)

“THE SCHEDULEREPRESENTATIVE SAVINGS IN WASTE DISPOSAL COSTS

Type of waste disposal authority
Saving in waste disposal costs per tonne

A London waste disposal authority for an area which includes an inner London borough.

The council of an inner London borough.

The Common Council of the City of London.

£35.52

A London waste disposal authority which comprises outer London boroughs.

The council of an outer London borough.

£30.13

The Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority.

The Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority.

The council of a metropolitan district.

£23.69

Any other waste disposal authority.
£17.23 where the authority incurs any transport costs in disposing of similar waste and £9.69 in other cases.”

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Robert Atkins
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
21st February 1995

John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales
22nd February 1995

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
27th February 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 52(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires waste disposal authorities to pay waste collection authorities amounts representing their net savings on the disposal of waste retained by collection authorities for recycling.
Section 52(3) of that Act confers a power on waste disposal authorities to pay persons other than waste collection authorities equivalent amounts for waste collected by them for recycling.
The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) Regulations 1992 as amended by The Environmental Protection (Waste Recycling Payments) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 make provision for the determination of a waste disposal authority’s net saving of expenditure for the purposes of section 52(1) or (3) of that Act in relation to such waste. The Schedule to those Regulations (as amended) provides figures for determining a waste disposal authority’s net saving of expenditure where this cannot otherwise be determined because sufficient accurate information is not available or could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. These Regulations increase the figures in the Schedule to take account of rises in the retail price index.


(1)
1990 c. 43.

(2)
S.I. 1992/462, amended by S.I. 1993/445, 1994/522.