Regulation 20 Registration of dealers and brokers

(1)

The register established and mintained by a waste regulation authority pursuant to paragraph 12(5) of Part I of Schedule 4 to the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 shall also be a register of establishments or undertakings registering with the authority under this regulation.

(2)

The register shall contain the following particulars in relation to each such establishment or undertaking—

(a)

the name of the establishment or undertaking;

(b)

the address of its principal place of business; and

(c)

the address of any place at or from which it carries on business.

(3)

The waste regulation authority shall enter the relevant particulars in the register in relation to an establishment or undertaking which arranges (as dealer or broker) for the disposal or the recovery of waste if it becomes aware of them as a result of either—

(a)

that establishment or undertaking applying, before 1st January 1995, to the authority under paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 5 to the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 to be registered as a broker of controlled waste; or

(b)

the authority being otherwise notified in writing before 1st January 1995 of those particulars.

(4)

An establishment or undertaking registering under paragraph (3)(b) above shall register with the waste regulation authority in whose area its principal place of business in Great Britain is located or, where it has no place of business in Great Britain, with any waste regulation authority.

(5)

In the case of an establishment or undertaking registered by virtue of paragraph (3)(a) above, its registration under this regulation shall have effect only for so long as its application to be registered as a broker of controlled waste is pending.

(6)

In the case of an establishment or undertaking registered by virtue of paragraph (3)(b) above, its registration under this regulation shall cease to have effect on 1st January 1995 unless—

(a)

it has before that date applied to be registered as a broker of controlled waste; and

(b)

immediately before that date that application is pending,

in which event its registration under this regulation shall continue to have effect for so long as its application to be registered as a broker of controlled waste is pending.

(7)

For the purposes of this regulation, paragraph 1(4)

and (5) of Part I of Schedule 5 to theWaste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 shall apply for the purpose of determiningwhether an application to be registered as a broker of controlled waste is pending.

(8)

Where a registration under this regulation ceases to have effect, the waste regulation authority—

(a)

shall record this fact in the appropriate entry in its register and the date on which it occurred; and

(b)

may remove the appropriate entry from its register at any time more than three years after the registration ceases to have effect.

(9)

In this regulation, “waste regulation authority” has the meaning given by section30 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990^f1.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: OJ No. L194, 25.7.1975, p.47; the Directive was amended by Council Directive 91/156/EEC, OJ No. L78, 26.3.91, p.32 and by Council Directive 91/692/EEC, OJ No. L377, 31.12.91, p.48.