# The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2004, Regulation 14: Utilisation of landfill allowances

Extent: N.I.

(1) As soon as reasonably practicable after the end of the reconciliation period the monitoring authority must reconcile the allowances available to each district council with the amount of biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the district council, as calculated under regulation 13(1)(a), by deeming allowances to have been utilised in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) Landfill allowances available to a district council for the scheme year must be utilised in the following order –
(a) allowances originally allocated to another district council which have been transferred to the landfill allowance account;
(b) allowances borrowed from a later scheme year;
(c) any other allowances.
(3) Within each category in paragraph (2), allowances must be utilised according to the order of their vintage.
(4) The monitoring authority must deem allowances to have been utilised until –
(a) the number of allowances deemed to have been utilised is equal to the number of allowances needed to authorise the amount of biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the district council, as calculated under regulation 13(1)(a); or
(b) no more allowances are available to that district council for the scheme year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/416/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-northern-ireland-regulations-2004/regulation-14
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