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Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
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140 Dealing with materials
140 Dealing with materials
(1) The occupier of any premises who deals with materials in or on premises in such a manner as to cause the emission of noise from those premises is guilty of an offence if the noise so caused, or any part of it, is caused by the occupier’s failure to deal with those materials in a proper and efficient manner.
(2) In this section—
deal with materials means process, handle, move, store or dispose of the materials.
materials includes raw materials, materials in the process of manufacture, manufactured materials, by-products, or waste materials.