NEWFOUNDLAND
AND
LABRADOR
REGULATION 57/05
Waste Diversion Regulations
under the
Environmental Protection Act
(O.C. 2005-402)
(Filed July 12, 2005)
Under the authority of subsection 111(1) of the Environmental Protection Act
, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.
Dated at St. John's
, July 8, 2005
.
Robert C. Thompson
Clerk of the Executive Council
REGULATIONS
Analysis
Short title
1.
These regulations may be cited as the Waste Diversion Regulations
.
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Definitions
2.
In these regulations
(a)
"Act" means the Environmental Protection Act
;
(b)
"designated material" means a material designated by the minister under section 3;
(c)
"effective date" means the date stated in accordance with paragraph 4(e); and
(d)
"waste disposal site" means real property, a building or a structure upon which waste material is deposited and disposed of in accordance with an approval.
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Designated material ban
3.
The minister may, for a specified area of the province or a part of the province, designate a material as a designated material that is banned from disposal into one or more waste disposal sites.
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Ban information
4.
(1) Where the minister makes a designation under section 3, that designation shall
(a)
be in writing;
(b)
describe the banned designated material;
(c)
describe the area to which the designated material ban applies;
(d)
indicate the waste disposal sites that shall not accept the banned designated material for disposal; and
(e)
state the date upon which the designated material ban will come into effect.
(2)
The minister may vary or revoke a designation made under section 3 and paragraphs (1)(a) to (e), with the necessary changes, shall apply to that variation or revocation.
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Publication
5.
A designated material ban and a variation or revocation of that ban made under these regulations shall be published in a newspaper in general circulation in the area covered by that ban, variation or revocation not fewer than 15 days before the effective date of that ban, variation or revocation.
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Prohibition
6.
(1) A person in an area shall not dispose of a designated material into a waste disposal site after the effective date of a ban on the disposal of that designated material for that area.
(2)
A person responsible for a waste disposal site shall not allow a designated material to be disposed of at that site after the effective date of a ban on the disposal of that designated material into that site.
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