Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act · s 4

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s 4Meaning of hazardous and other wastes

Subject to section 5, for the purposes of this Act —

(a)

“hazardous waste” means —

(i)

waste prescribed by any regulations made under this

Act, where the waste has any of the characteristics mentioned in Annex III to the Basel Convention; or

(ii)

waste that belongs to any category contained in Annex I to the Basel Convention, unless it does not possess any of the characteristics contained in Annex III to that

Convention;

(b)

“other waste” means —

(i)

household waste; or

(ii)

residues arising from the incineration of household waste, but hazardous and other wastes do not include wastes which derive from the normal operations of a ship and radioactive wastes.

Hazardous Waste (Control of Export,

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