Environmental Quality (Prescribed Premises) (Scheduled Wastes Treatment and Disposal Facilities) Order 1989

ENVIRONMENT AL QUALITY (PRESCRIBED PREMISES) (SCHEDULED WASTES TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL FACILITIES) ORDER, 1989* IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Environ­ mental Quality Act 1974, the Minister, after consultation with the Environmental Quality Council, makes the following order: 1. Citation and commencement .. This order may be cited as the Environmental Quality (Prescribed Premises) (Scheduled Wastes Treatment and Disposal Facilities) Order 1989 and shall come into force on the 1st May 1989. 2. Interpretation. In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires "land treatment facility" means premises used for the land treatment of any scheduled waste, such as sludge farming; "off-site recovery facility" means premises occupied or used for the retrieval of material or product from any scheduled waste which is not produced on those premises; "off-site treatment facility" means premises occupied or used for the processing of any scheduled waste which is not produced on those premises; "scheduled wastes" means any waste falling within the categories of waste listed in the First Schedule to the Environ­ mental Quality (Scheduled Wastes) Regulations 1989; "scheduled waste incinerator" means premises occupied or used for the thermal destruction of any scheduled waste; "secure landfill" means premises occupied or used for the disposal of any scheduled waste on land; "off-site storage facility" means premises occupied or used for the storage, collection or transfer of any scheduled waste which is not produced on those premises. 3. Prescribed premises. The following premises are prescribed to be premises the occupation or use of which by any person shall, unless he is the *Published as P.U. (A) 140/1989. 177 holder of a licence issued in respect of those premises, be an offence under the Act: (a). off-site storage facilities; (b) off-site treatment facilities; (c) off-site recovery facilities; (dj scheduled waste incinerators; (e) land treatment facilities; and (/) secure landfills. Made the 31st March 1989. DATUIC AMAa STEPHEN K. T. YONG, Minister of Sc~nce, Technology and the Environment 178