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Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 63 Cited in Amendments 12 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionScotland
CitationSSI 2003/235
Year2003
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which they are made (hereinafter referred to as “the relevant date”) .(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.(1) In these Regulations–(1A) In relation to batteries and subject to regulation 2(1) , expressions defined in Article 3 of the Batteries Directive have the same meanings in these Regulations as in that Directive.(1B) Expressions not defined in paragraph (1) and used in these Regulations and in the Landfill Directive have the same meaning as in that Directive.a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation in, or Schedule to, these Regulations bearing that number; anda numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number in the regulation or Schedule of which that paragraph forms part.(1) Subject to regulation 4, these Regulations apply to landfills.(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4) , for the purposes of this regulation a landfill is a waste disposal site for the deposit of the waste onto or into land.subject to paragraph (4) , any site which is used for more than a year for the temporary storage of waste; andany internal waste disposal site, that is to say a site where a producer of waste is carrying out its own waste disposal at the place of production.any facility where waste is unloaded in order to permit its preparation for further transport for recovery, treatment or disposal elsewhere;any site where waste is stored as a general rule for a period of less than three years prior to recovery or treatment; orany site where waste is stored prior to disposal for a period of less than one year.
  • the spreading of sludges (including sewage sludges and sludges resulting from dredging operations) and similar matter on the soil for the purposes of fertilisation or improvement;
  • the use of suitable inert waste for redevelopment, restoration and filling-in work or for construction purposes;
  • waste which falls within the scope of the Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010;
  • non-hazardous dredging sludges alongside the bank or towpath of a small waterway from which they have been dredged where that activity falls within the exemption from waste management licensing in paragraph 25 of
  • non-hazardous sludges in surface waters, including the bed and its sub-soil;
  • any...

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