{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/972",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Waste Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-waste-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Coding of consignments",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), an Agency shall assign or supply forthwith to any person, on request, for the purpose of assigning to a consignment of special waste or, where the consignment is one in a carrier’s round, to the consignments in that round, a code unique to that consignment or round, as the case may be.\n(2) A code assigned or supplied in accordance with paragraph (1) may consist of letters, numbers or symbols, or any combination of letters, numbers and symbols, or a bar code which enables the consignment or carrier’s round, as the case may be, to be identified electronically.\n(3) The Agency need not assign or supply a code for a consignment or round until any fee required in respect of it under regulation 14(1) has been paid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "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. 4(1) inserted (31.8.1996) by The Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2019), reg. 1, Sch. para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 4(3) added (31.8.1996) by The Special Waste (Amendment) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2019), reg. 1, Sch. para. 4(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/972/regulation/4",
    "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."
}