{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Waste Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Site records",
  "text": "(1) Any person who makes a deposit of special waste in or on any land shall record the location of each such deposit, shall keep such records until his authorisation for the treatment or disposal of waste under the 2018 Regulations is surrendered or revoked and shall then send the records to the Agency for the site.\n(2) Such records shall comprise either—\n(a) a site plan marked with a grid, or\n(b) a site plan with overlays on which deposits are shown in relation to the contours of the site.\n(3) Deposits shall be described in such records by reference to the register of consignment notes kept under regulation 15, save that where waste is disposed of—\n(a) by pipeline, or\n(b) within the curtilage of the premises at which it is produced,\nthe deposits shall be described by reference to a record of the quantity and composition of the waste and the date of its disposal.\n(4) In the case of liquid wastes discharged without containers into underground strata or disused workings the record shall comprise only a written statement of the quantity and composition of special waste so discharged and the date of its disposal.\n(5) Every record made pursuant to regulation 14 of the Control of Pollution (Special Waste) Regulations 1980 shall—\n(a) be kept with the records referred to in paragraph (1) above for so long as is mentioned in that paragraph, and\n(b) shall accompany those records when they are sent to the Agency in accordance with that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) (16.7.2005) by The Hazardous Waste (England and Wales)Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/894), reg. 76 (with reg. 75) and Regulations revoked (W.) (16.7.2005) by The Hazardous Waste (Wales) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1806), reg. 72(1) (with reg. 72(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(1) substituted (S.) (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 13(7) (with sch. 23); and by sch. 22 para. 13(3) of the same amending S.S.I., it is provided that the words “environmental authorisation” are substituted for the words \"waste management licence”"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/1709, as amended by S.I. 1988/1562, 1988/1790, 1994/1137 and by Part IV of Schedule 6 to the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (c.12)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/972/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:11.731187+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."
}