New clause 2 - Strategies for dealing with flytipping: Scotland
Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
'.—(1) The Scottish Ministers must have a strategy for—
(a) reducing the amount of waste which is flytipped, and
(b) extending the powers of local government and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to deal with flytipping.
(2) Before formulating policy for the purposes of subsection (1), the Scottish Ministers must—
(a) consult the Secretary of State, the National Assembly for Wales, the Department of the Environment and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency,
(b) consult such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of local government as they consider appropriate,
(c) consult such bodies or persons appearing to them to be representative of the interests of industry as they consider appropriate, and
(d) carry out such public consultation as they consider appropriate.
(3) The Scottish Ministers must set out in a statement any policy formulated for the purposes of subsection (1).
(4) The Scottish Ministers must, as soon as a statement is prepared for the purposes of subsection (3), send a copy of it to—
(a) the Secretary of State,
(b) the National Assembly for Wales, and
(c) the Department of the Environment.'.