The Waste Batteries (Scotland) Regulations 2009
1Citation, commencement and extent
2Interpretation
3Collection of waste portable batteries
4Amendment of the 1994 Regulations
5Amendment of the 1995 Act
6Amendment of the 2000 Regulations
7Amendment of the 2003 Regulations
8Transitional provisions: storage and treatment
9Transitional provisions: incineration
10Transitional provisions: landfill

2009 No. 247

Environmental Protection

The Waste Batteries (Scotland) Regulations 2009

Made

Coming into force

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 M1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 2(4) of that Act, they have consulted the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government, industry, agriculture and small businesses respectively as they consider appropriate and such other bodies or persons as they consider appropriate.

In accordance with section 2(8) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Annotations:
Marginal Citations
M1

1999 c.24. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), as read with section 5(3) of the said 1999 Act. Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC (“the Batteries Directive”) (O.J. L 266, 26.9.2006, p.1) was designated for the purposes of paragraph 20(2)(c) of Schedule 1 to the 1999 Act by the Pollution Prevention and Control (Designation of Batteries Directive) (Scotland) Order 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/86).