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Regulation 6 Obligation for waste disposal authorities to keep records and make returns

England and Wales

(1)

A waste disposal authority must keep records containing the following information for each scheme year—

(a)

the amount of collected municipal waste;

(b)

the amount of F1collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the authority; and

(c)

the amount of F2collected municipal waste sent to other waste facilities by the authority.

(2)

In relation to municipal waste mentioned in sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) the record must contain details of—

(a)

the total amount sent to each landfill or waste facility; and

(b)

the description of the waste, and the appropriate code for the waste, in the F3List of Wastes;

(3)

The records under paragraph (1) must be kept for a period of three years beginning on the day after the date that the reconciliation period for the scheme year ends.

(4)

A waste disposal authority must submit to the monitoring authority a return containing the information in paragraph (1) for each 3 month period ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December within one month of the end of that period.

(5)

The monitoring authority, or a person authorised in writing by the monitoring authority, may by notice require a waste disposal authority to—

(a)

produce for inspection, or for removal for inspection elsewhere, any of the records that it is required to maintain under paragraph (1);

(b)

supply the monitoring authority with information about, or evidence as to, matters connected with the sending of F4biodegradable 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.

(6)

The monitoring authority, or a person authorised in writing by the monitoring authority, may make copies of any records produced or supplied under paragraph (5).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 6(1)(b) substituted (15.1.2012 immediately after 12:01 am) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/65), regs. 1(3), 2(2), 7(a)

F2

Words in reg. 6(1)(c) substituted (15.1.2012 immediately after 12:01 am) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/65), regs. 1(3), 2(2), 7(a)

F3

Words in reg. 6(2)(b) substituted (20.7.2015) by The Hazardous Waste (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1417), regs. 1(2), 2(3)

F4

Words in Regulations substituted (15.1.2012 immediately after 12:01 am) by The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/65), regs. 1(3), 2(2), 8

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1

2003 c. 33. See sections 12(4) and 13(7) for definitions of “prescribed”.