{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-digital-waste-tracking-england-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-digital-waste-tracking-england-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2026/9780348282726",
  "legislation_title": "The Digital Waste Tracking (England) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-digital-waste-tracking-england-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Designated person and the digital waste tracking system",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State (“the designated person”) is designated for the purposes of section 34CA(7) of the 1990 Act.\n(2) The designated person must establish, maintain and operate an electronic system (“the digital waste tracking system”) for the purpose of tracking controlled waste.\n(3) The functions in paragraph (2) include (but are not limited to) the approval of software.\n(4) Subject to paragraph (5), the designated person must ensure that—\n(a) a unique identifying number is assigned to a digital waste record (“digital waste record number”) when specified information in that digital waste record is entered into the digital waste tracking system; and\n(b) the digital waste record number is sent to the operator of a permitted facility who recorded the specified information in the digital waste record as soon as possible after the digital waste record number has been assigned.\n(5) If the operator of a permitted facility has recorded specified information in a digital waste record but has not paid the digital waste tracking fee in accordance with regulation 5(2), the designated person may withhold the entry of the specified information into the digital waste tracking system.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2026/9780348282726/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:37:30.463351+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}