The Controlled Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002
Article 2(2) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (“the Order”) defines three sorts of controlled waste: household, industrial and commercial waste. The Order enables regulations to be made whereby waste of any description is to be treated for the purposes of the provisions of Part II as being of one or other of those categories. In these Regulations references to waste includes references to litter as provided for by Article 17 of the Litter (Northern Ireland) Order 1994.