Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1324

The Street Litter Control Notices Order

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1991 No. 1324

ENVIRONMENMTAL PROTECTION

The Street Litter Control Notices Order

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 94(1)(a) and (b) and (2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990^[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—

Citation and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the Street Litter Control Notices Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st July 1991.

Prescribed commercial and retail premises
    2.    A street litter control notice may be issued in respect of commercial and retail premises of the following descriptions—
 (a) premises used wholly or partly for the sale of food or drink for consumption off the premises,
 (b) premises used wholly or partly for the sale of food or drink for consumption on a part of the premises forming open land adjacent to the street.
 (c) service stations and other premises on which fuel for motor vehicles is sold to the public,
 (d) premises used wholly or partly as a cinema, theatre, concert hall, bingo hall, casino, dance hall, swimming bath, skating rink, gymnasium, or area for other indoor or outdoor sports or recreations, or as an amusement arcade or centre, or
 (e) banks, building society offices or other premises with the automated teller machines located on an outside wall of the premises.

Prescribed descriptions of land
    3.—(1)  Land which may be included in an area of open land specified in a street litter control notice is land which is part of the premises in respect of which the notice is issued and, subject to paragraph (2) below, land of the following descriptions—
 (i) land which is part of a street, other than a carriageway when it is open to vehicular traffic,
 (ii) relevant land of a principal litter authority, and
 (iii) land under the direct control of any other local authority.

    (2)  The land described in paragraph (1)(i) to (iii) may be specified—
 (a) in a street litter control notice issued in respect of premises described in article 2(e) above if the land is within 10 metres of those premises,
 (b) in a street litter control notice issued in respect of any other premises, if the land is mithin 100 metres of the premises.

Michael Heseltine

Secretary of State for the Environment

5th June 1991

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

5th June 1991

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

5th June 1991

This Order, which applies throughout Great Britain, makes provision in respect of the control of litter on streets. Article 2 prescribes the descriptions of commercial or retail premises in respect of which a street litter control notice may be issued by a principal litter authority. Article 3 prescribes the descriptions of open land which may be specified in the notice.

[1] 1990 c. 43. back