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Hazardous Wastes (Managelllent, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Third Amendment Rules, 2010.

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S.O. 710(E).~In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6,8, and 25 of the Enviromnent (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), the Central

Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement)

Rules, 2008, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Third Amendment Rules, 2010.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008 (hereinafter referred to as the said nl1es), in rule 3, sub-rule (1), after clause (r), the following clause shall be inserted, namely,-\" (ra) other wastes:- wastes specified in Part D of Schedule III shall not be Hazardous waste unless they posses any of the Hazardous characteristics specified in Part C of the Schedule in respect of impOlt or export of such wastes in accordance with rules 12,13 and 14\"·

3. In the said rules, in Chapter III, in rule 8, after sub-rule (7), the following sub-rules shall be inserted, namely.-\" (8) Every trader desirous of import of Metal scrap, paper waste and other wastes as listed in Schedule III (Part D) may make an application in Fonn 16 to any of the State Pollution Control Boards or·Pollution Control Committees.

(9) The State Pollution Control Boards or Pollution Control Committees will register the trader on a one time basis and registration would be considered as deemed if not objected to within a period of 30 days.