Regulation 15 Landfill allowances registerI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The monitoring authority must maintain a landfill allowances register.

(2)

In relation to each district council the landfill allowances register must contain –

(a)

a landfill allowance account, and

(b)

a transaction log.

(3)

The landfill allowance account must record for each scheme year –

(a)

the number and reference numbers of allowances allocated to the district council under section 4 of the Act;

(b)

any alteration of allowances under section 5 of the Act;

(c)

the number and reference numbers of allowances borrowed or transferred to or from the account;

(d)

the total number of allowances available to the district council;

(e)

after the monitoring authority has complied with regulation 13(1) –

(i)

the amount of F1biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the district council,

(ii)

the number of landfill allowances needed to authorise the sending to landfills of that amount; and

(f)

after the monitoring authority has complied with regulation 14 –

(i)

the number and reference number of any allowances which have been utilised,

(ii)

the number (if any) of landfill allowances which were available for the scheme year and were not utilised, and

(iii)

the amount (if any) in tonnes by which F2biodegradable local authority collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the district councils exceeded the landfill allowances available to the district council.

(4)

The transaction log must detail the following information in relation to the allocation, borrowing, transfer and withdrawal of landfill allowances –

(a)

the date that the transaction is included in the register;

(b)

the reference numbers of the landfill allowances allocated, borrowed, transferred or withdrawn;

(c)

in the case of a transfer the district councils involved; and

(d)

in the case of any borrowing, the year-

(i)

for which the landfill allowances were originally allocated, and

(ii)

to which they have been borrowed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 15(3)(e)(i) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(5)(g)
F2: Words in reg. 15(3)(f)(iii) substituted (22.11.2011) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/373), regs. 1(1), 2(8)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 15 in operation at 1.4.2005, see reg. 1(1)