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Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Regulation 2014
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#### 115 Repeal and savings
115 Repeal and savings
(cf clause 53 of 2005 Reg)
> > (1) The [Protection of the Environment Operations (Waste) Regulation 2005](/view/html/repealed/current/sl-2005-0497) (the 2005 Regulation) is repealed.
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> > (2) Any act, matter or thing that, immediately before the repeal of the 2005 Regulation, had effect under that Regulation continues to have effect under this Regulation.
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> > (3) The EPA cannot grant the occupier of a scheduled waste facility an approval under clause 15, in relation to the use of waste for an operational purpose specified in any of the following items of the table to clause 15(1), if the waste was received at the facility before the commencement of this Regulation—
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> > > (a) item 2,
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> > > (b) item 6 (unless the operational purpose is a landfill gas collection system),
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> > > (c) item 7 (unless the waste consists of plastic sheeting),
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> > > (d) item 8 (unless the waste consists of virgin excavated material and the operational purpose is the placement of that material below the water table, in accordance with the conditions of an environment protection licence, to rehabilitate a sand mine).
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> > (4) An exemption granted under the 2005 Regulation that, immediately before the repeal of that Regulation, was in force—
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> > > (a) continues to have effect as if it were an exemption granted under Part 9 until it is revoked under that Part, and
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> > > (b) in the case of an exemption that was authorised to be granted by clause 51A of that Regulation—continues to have effect as if it were a resource recovery exemption until it is revoked under Part 9.
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> > (5) Nothing in subclause (4) limits the operation of subclause (2).