Regulation 6 Outage preventing entry of specified information

(1)

In the event of an outage, the operator of a permitted facility must follow the steps in paragraph (2).

(2)

The steps are to—

(a)

unless the operator has received an outage notification, notify Natural Resources Wales of the outage as soon as reasonably practicable;

(b)

make a written record of the specified information by the deadline specified in regulation 4(9);

(c)

within 7 days beginning with the day after the day on which the outage is resolved, enter the specified information recorded under sub-paragraph (b) into the digital waste tracking system in accordance with the specified steps.

(3)

The operator of a permitted facility—

(a)

may make the written record required under paragraph (2)(b) in electronic form if the operator is able to save the record in a manner that can be easily found and retrieved,

(b)

must, until the step described in paragraph (2)(c) is completed—

(i)

retain the written record made under paragraph (2)(b), and

(ii)

if requested to do so, make the written record available to Natural Resources Wales as soon as reasonably practicable.

(4)

In this regulation—

“outage”(“diffodiad”) means circumstances caused by factors beyond the operator of the permitted facility’s control that prevent the entry of the specified information into the digital waste tracking system by the deadline specified in regulation 4(9);
“outage notification” (“hysbysiad o ddiffodiad”) means a communication informing users of the digital waste tracking system that the system is unavailable.