Section 42: Standards for hazardous wastes
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42. Standards for hazardous wastes
(1) The Minister may, by regulations, declare specified wastes as hazardous wastes.
(2) In determining which wastes shall be declared hazardous, the Minister
shall have regard to such special circumstances as he considers appropriate,
including quantity, location, and climatic conditions, relating to discharges.
(3) The Minister shall prescribe standards for hazardous wastes to control
pollution of the environment and to promote public health and welfare.
(4) The Minister may make regulations for—
(a) the control of the import, export, collection, movement, transit,
transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes;
(b) the licensing of waste disposal sites, waste management systems and other facilities relating to the disposal of hazardous
wastes in an environmentally sound manner.
[S. 42 amended by s. 22 of Act 6 of 2008 w.e.f. 15 July 2008.]