Statutory duties and powers
Joint Strategies and Power of Direction consultation on exemptions and draft guidance
The Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003 requires local authorities in two-tier areas to have a joint municipal waste management strategy and gives waste disposal authorities a power to direct waste collection authorities.
Following a consultation in 2004, the Government issued the following:
- Guidance for Waste Authorities
in Two-Tier Areas on Application of Duty to have a Joint Municipal Waste
Management Strategy
(55 KB) updated February 2005 - Guidance for Waste Authorities in Two-Tier
Areas on the use of the Power of Direction in England
(26 KB) - 2004
- Form for application for exemption of two-tier area from duty to have in place a joint municipal waste management strategy
Local Authorities covered by the duty to have a joint strategy were obligated
to have one in place by April 2005. The Government has issued a clarification
(9 KB) on what is expected from Local Authorities which, under section
32 of the WET Act have a duty to have in place a joint municipal waste
management strategy by this date.
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Page published: 5 February 2003