Regulation 10 Obligation for district councils to keep records and make returnsI1
Northern Ireland
A district council must keep records containing the following information for each scheme year –
the weight in tonnes of F1local authority collected municipal waste;
the weight in tonnes of F2local authority collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the district council; and
the weight in tonnes of F3local authority collected municipal waste sent to waste facilities whether by, or on behalf of, the district council.
In relation to F4local authority collected municipal waste mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) and (c) the records must contain details of –
the total weight in tonnes of waste sent to each landfill or waste facility, and
the standard description of, and the appropriate code in the European Waste Catalogue for, the waste referred to in sub-paragraph (a).
All weights mentioned in paragraphs (1) and (2) must be rounded up to the nearest tonne.
The records under paragraph (1) must be kept for a period of two years beginning on the day after the day on which the reconciliation period for the scheme year ends.
A district council must submit to the monitoring authority, in the form specified by that authority, a return containing the information in paragraph (1) for each 3 month period in a scheme year ending on 31st March, 30th June, 30th September and 31st December within 2 months of the end of that period.
The monitoring authority, or a person authorised by the monitoring authority, may by notice require a district council to –
produce for inspection or for removal for inspection elsewhere, records it is required to keep under paragraph (1);
supply the monitoring authority with information about, or evidence as to, matters connected with the sending of F5biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste to landfills;
and to do so in such form, at such reasonable place and within such reasonable time as is specified in the notice.
The monitoring authority, or a person authorised in writing by the monitoring authority, may make copies of –
records produced under paragraph (6)(a),
information or evidence supplied under paragraph (6)(b).
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in reg. 10(1)(a) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(3)(a)
- F2
Words in reg. 10(1)(b) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)
- F3
Words in reg. 10(1)(c) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)
- F4
Words in reg. 10(2) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(4)(a)
- F5
Words in reg. 10(6)(b) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(a)