New clause 3 - Strategies for dealing with flytipping: Wales

Waste and Emissions Trading Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:30 pm on 10 April 2003.

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'.—(1) The National Assembly for Wales must have a strategy for—

(a) reducing the amount of waste which is flytipped, and

(b) extending the powers of local government and the Environment Agency to deal with flytipping.

(2) Before formulating policy for the purposes of subsection (1), the Assembly must—

(a) consult the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, the Department of the Environment and the Environment Agency,

(b) consult such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of local government as it considers appropriate,

(c) consult such bodies or persons appearing to it to be representative of the interests of industry as it considers appropriate, and

(d) carry out such public consultation as it considers appropriate.

(3) The Assembly must set out in a statement any policy formulated for the purposes of subsection (1).

(4) The Assembly 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 Scottish Ministers, and

(c) the Department of the Environment.'.