
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 28th February 1997.
2 
In the Special Waste Regulations 1996:
(a) in regulation 20(1)(b)(ii), for “5” there shall be substituted “5(1)”;
(b) after regulation 20, the following regulation shall be inserted:“
20A 
A person who by virtue of paragraph (2) of regulation 5 of the 1994 Regulations is treated as being technically competent for the purposes of section 74(3)(b) of the 1990 Act, shall continue to be so treated in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (4) of that regulation as if waste now defined as special waste within the meaning of regulation 20(1)(a) were not special waste.”
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Ferrers
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment
6th February 1997