Waste Management Act, 1996

Power of Minister in relation to waste management plans.

24.—The Minister may, after consultation with the local authority or authorities concerned—

(a) require that two or more local authorities jointly make a waste management plan under section 22 (3),

(b) require that the making of waste management plans, whether under subsection (2) or (3) of section 22 , by two or more local authorities be co-ordinated in such manner and in relation to such matters as the Minister may specify, and

(c) require a local authority or, as the case may be, two or more local authorities, to vary (whether by addition or deletion) a waste management plan made by it or them in such manner as the Minister may specify or to replace the plan by a new waste management plan,

and the local authority or authorities shall comply with any such requirement of the Minister.