{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-duty-of-care-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-duty-of-care-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Duty to produce a written description of waste or a transfer note",
  "text": "(1) A competent authority may request any person required to keep a written description, or a transfer note under regulation 5, to produce the description or note (or a copy) to that authority.\n(2) The person must produce the description or note (or the copy) as soon as is reasonably practicable, and in any case—\n(a) within 7 days from the date of the request; or\n(b) such longer period as is permitted by that authority.\n(3) The description or note (or copy) must be—\n(a) given to an officer of that authority; or\n(b) sent to the address specified by that authority when making the request.\n(4) In this regulation, “competent authority” means—\n(a) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; or\n(b) a waste collection authority for the purposes of Part 2 of the Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 1.3.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 30(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 has the effect that in Scotland a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39) is a waste collection authority."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/4/regulation/6",
    "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."
}