{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2004/1490",
  "legislation_title": "The Landfill Allowances Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/landfill-allowances-scheme-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Obligation for waste disposal authorities to keep records and make returns",
  "text": "(1) A waste disposal authority must keep records containing the following information for each scheme year—\n(a) the amount of collected municipal waste;\n(b) the amount of collected municipal waste sent to landfills by the authority; and\n(c) the amount of collected municipal waste sent to other waste facilities by the authority.\n(2) In relation to municipal waste mentioned in sub-paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) the record must contain details of—\n(a) the total amount sent to each landfill or waste facility; and\n(b) the description of the waste, and the appropriate code for the waste, in the List of Wastes;\n(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.\n(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.\n(5) The monitoring authority, or a person authorised in writing by the monitoring authority, may by notice require a waste disposal authority to—\n(a) produce for inspection, or for removal for inspection elsewhere, any of the records that it is required to maintain under paragraph (1);\n(b) supply the monitoring authority with information about, or evidence as to, matters connected with the sending of biodegradable collected municipal waste to landfills;\nand to do so in such form, at such reasonable place and within such reasonable time as is specified in the notice.\n(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).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2004/1490/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:29.020560+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."
}