What this covers
Why you need it
The power to require it comes from The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, Northern Ireland primary legislation made by Order in Council.
What the Order carries
What our graph holds for The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 as a whole — the Order behind this licence, not the licence conditions themselves.
- Duties on businesses
- 35
- Penalties
- 26
- Exemptions
- 9
Duties on businesses under the Order
- Illegal deposit, treatment, or disposal of controlled waste art.4
- Manage controlled waste safely and separate food waste art.5
- Falsify waste records or forge a waste management licence art.6
- Pay compensation for land rights granted for waste works art.7
- Apply for a waste management licence using the official form art.8
- Failure to comply with environmental protection requirements during licence suspension art.12
… and 29 more business duties in the same Order.
What happens if you get it wrong
- Cause another person to commit an environmental offence 2 years imprisonment
- Failure to comply with environmental protection requirements during licence suspension 2 years imprisonment
- Failure to provide information to regulators 2 years imprisonment
- Falsify waste records or forge a waste management licence 2 years imprisonment
- Illegal deposit, treatment, or disposal of controlled waste 5 years imprisonment
… and 21 more penalties in the same Order.
Exemptions that may take you outside it
- Commercially confidential info exempt from public register — Information is commercially confidential, as determined by the NIEA (or on appeal by the Planning Appeals Commission), meaning its inclusion …
- Departure from waste hierarchy for specific waste streams — Specific waste streams where departing from the hierarchy is justified by life-cycle thinking on overall impacts
- Exemption from public consultation for specific waste management plans — Waste management plan is for national defence, civil emergency, or already subject to consultation under the Environmental Assessment of Plans …
- Exemption from public register for commercially sensitive information — Information is commercially confidential and its publication would prejudice commercial interests to an unreasonable degree
- Exemptions from remediation notices for contaminated land — Land is already regulated under industrial pollution controls, a site licence (unless harm is from outside activities), specific waste deposit …
… and 4 more exemptions in the same Order.
Read our full dossier on The Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997
Who issues it
Your local council issues this. Councils apply the same statute but set their own fees, conditions and timescales.
Where to apply
Duty, penalty and exemption labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the enabling instrument, not the instrument itself. Fees, forms and conditions are set by the issuing authority — always check the linked source.