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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-duty-of-care-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/4",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-duty-of-care-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Transfer Notes",
  "text": "(1) The transferor and the transferee must ensure that a document as described in paragraphs (3) and (4) is completed in writing and signed by each of them in respect of the waste being transferred (“a transfer note”).\n(2) A transfer note must be prepared at the same time as the written description is transferred in accordance with section 34(1)(c) of the Act.\n(3) A transfer note must—\n(a) give the name and address (including the postcode) of the transferor and the transferee;\n(b) give the date and place (including the postcode) of the transfer;\n(c) state whether the transferor is the producer of the waste;\n(d) state whether the transferor is the importer of the waste;\n(e) describe the type, composition and quantity of the waste being transferred (including, where the waste is in a container, the type of container);\n(f) identify the waste being transferred by reference to the appropriate six-digit code in the European Waste Catalogue; and\n(g) identify the activity carried out by the transferor in respect of the waste being transferred by reference to the SIC code for that activity.\n(4) A transfer note must where the transferor or transferee is a person described in column 1 of the Table—\n(a) state that the transferor or transferee is such a person; and\n(b) include the additional information where specified in column 2 of the Table.\nTABLE\nCategory of person\nAdditional information\nA waste collection authority.\n...\n. . .\nA person to whom section 33(1)(a) and (b) of the Act does not apply by virtue of regulations under subsection (3) of that section.\n. . .\nA person authorised under a permit or registration under the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018\nThe relevant authorisation number (if any) issued by the competent authority.\nA person who has notified SEPA under Part 3 of the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018.\nThe relevant authorisation number (if any) issued by the competent authority.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“European Waste Catalogue” means the list set out in Commission Decision 2000/532/EC establishing a list of wastes, as that instrument may be amended from time to time; and\n“SIC code” means the code for an activity in the UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007 (SIC 2007), as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 table omitted (1.11.2025) by virtue of The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 25(a) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3 table inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 25(b) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 1.3.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "As amended by S.S.I. 2009/247."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Published on 14th December 2007 (ISBN 0116216417) and effective from 1st January 2008."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/4/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:36:42.467638+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."
}