The Contaminated Land (Wales) Regulations 2006
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2006/2989 |
| Year | 2006 |
(1) The title of these Regulations is the Contaminated Land (Wales) Regulations 2006 and they come into force on 10 December 2006.(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.any reference to a numbered section is to the section of the 1990 Act which bears that number or, in relation to harm attributable to any radioactivity possessed by any substances, to that section as modified by the Modification Regulations; andin relation to harm, so far as attributable to any radioactivity possessed by any substances, any term defined by the 1990 Act has the meaning given to it by that Act as modified by the Modification Regulations.land affecting controlled waters in the circumstances specified in regulation 3;land which is contaminated land by reason of waste acid tars in, on or under the land;the purification (including refining) of crude petroleum or of oil extracted from petroleum, shale or any other bituminous substance except coal, orthe manufacture or processing of explosives;land on which a prescribed process designated for central control has been, or is being, carried on under an authorisation, where the process does not solely consist of things being done which are required by way of remediation;land on which an activity has been, or is being, carried on in a Part A(1) installation land on which an activity has been carried on by means of Part A(1) mobile plant under a permit, where the activity did not solely consist of things being done which were required by way of remediation;land within a nuclear site;the Secretary of State for Defence,the Defence Council,an international headquarters or defence organisation, orthe service authority of a visiting force,chemical weapons,any biological agent or toxin which falls within section 1(1) (a) of the Biological Weapons Act 1974 any weapon, equipment or means of delivery which falls within section 1(1) (b) of that Act (restriction on development of biological weapons) ,land comprising premises which are, or were, designated by the Secretary of State by an order made under section 1(1) of the Atomic Weapons Establishment Act 1991 land to which section 30 of the Armed Forces Act 1996 land which is contaminated land wholly or partly by virtue of any radioactivity possessed by any substance in, on or under that land; andadjoining or adjacent to land of a description specified in any of sub-paragraphs (b) to (k) , andcontaminated land by virtue of substances which appear to have escaped from land of such a description.contain sulphuric acid;were produced as a result of the refining of benzole, used lubricants or petroleum; andare, or were, stored on land used as a retention basin for the disposal of such tars.(3) In paragraph (1) (d) , “authorisation” and “prescribed process” have the same meanings as in Part I of the 1990 Act (integrated pollution control and air pollution control by local authorities) and the reference to designation for central control is a reference to designation under section 2(4) (which provides for processes to be designated for central or local control) .(4) In paragraph (1) (e) , “Part A(1) installation” F43has the same meaning as in the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, and “permit” has the same meaning as “environmental permit” in those Regulations.(4A) In paragraph (1) (ea) , “Part A(1) mobile plant” has the same meaning as in the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 as those Regulations were in force on 26th February 2013, and “permit” has the same meaning as “environmental permit” in those Regulations as at that date.any site in respect of which, or part of which, a nuclear site licence is for the time being in force; orany site in respect of which, or part of which, after the revocation or surrender of a nuclear site licence, the period of responsibility of the licensee has not come to an end.(6) In paragraph (5) , “nuclear site licence”, “licensee” and “period of responsibility” have the meanings given by the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 .(7) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (g) , land used for residential purposes or by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes is to be treated as land used for naval, military or air force purposes only if the land forms part of a base occupied for
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