Waste Management Act, 1996
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Presentation of waste for collection. |
35.—(1) Whenever a local authority considers that, for the purpose of the proper management of waste or the prevention or control of environmental pollution, it is necessary so to do, it may, subject to subsection (5), make bye-laws— | |
(a) requiring a holder of household waste to present such waste for collection by a person collecting waste in accordance with this Part, | ||
(b) requiring a holder of household or commercial waste who presents such waste for collection as aforesaid (whether pursuant to a requirement of bye-laws under paragraph (a) or not) to so present the waste in a manner specified in the bye-laws. | ||
(2) A bye-law under subsection (1) shall be made in accordance with, and construed as if it was made under, Part VII of the Local Government Act, 1994 . | ||
(3) Bye-laws under subsection (1) may, without prejudice to the generality of that subsection or of section 37 (4) of the Local Government Act, 1994 , include provisions specifying— | ||
(a) that waste shall only be placed for collection in receptacles of a particular kind and that different waste shall be placed in different receptacles, | ||
(b) the quantity of waste which may or may not be placed in any receptacle, | ||
(c) the waste, or the mixtures of waste, which may or may not be placed in a receptacle, | ||
(d) the measures or precautions to be taken where particular waste, or mixtures thereof, is or are placed in a receptacle, | ||
(e) the size, colour, construction or maintenance of receptacles, | ||
(f) the location at which the waste is to be made available for collection, | ||
(g) times during which the waste is to be made available for collection, | ||
(h) any matters consequential on, or incidental to, the foregoing. | ||
(4) A local authority may provide or, where appropriate, may, in accordance with section 34 , require the holder of a waste collection permit granted by the authority to provide, receptacles in which household or commercial waste (either generally or of a specified nature or type) presented for collection shall be placed for such collection, and the local authority or the said holder, as the case may be, may require such reasonable payment, as it or he or she may determine, in respect of the provision of receptacles from the persons to whom they are provided. | ||
(5) (a) The Minister may, if he or she considers it expedient so to do for the purpose of the prevention or control of environmental pollution, give a direction to a local authority requiring it to take specified steps (including the making of bye-laws under Part VII of the Local Government Act, 1994 ) to ensure that specified substances, products, materials or classes of waste arising in household or commercial waste are segregated for the purpose of and in the course of collection, and recovered or disposed of in a specified manner. | ||
(b) A local authority concerned shall comply with any direction of the Minister given under this subsection within such period as may be specified in the direction. |