{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-emissions-trading-act-2003/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-emissions-trading-act-2003/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2003/33",
  "legislation_title": "Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/waste-and-emissions-trading-act-2003",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Borrowing and banking of landfill allowances",
  "text": "(1) An allocating authority may by regulations make provision for a waste disposal authority in its area to utilise for a scheme year landfill allowances allocated to it for a different scheme year.\n(2) Regulations under subsection (1) may not provide for—\n(a) the utilisation for a target year of allowances not allocated for that year;\n(b) the utilisation for a scheme year later than a target year of allowances allocated for a scheme year earlier than that target year;\n(c) the utilisation for a scheme year earlier than a target year of allowances allocated for a scheme year later than that target year.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may (in particular)—\n(a) make provision relating only to allowances allocated for specified scheme years;\n(b) make provision for allowances allocated for a scheme year to be utilised for a different scheme year only if—\n(i) that different scheme year is a specified scheme year;\n(ii) specified conditions are satisfied;\n(c) make provision for quantitative limits on inter-year utilisation of allowances;\n(d) make provision authorising the allocating authority to suspend inter-year utilisation of allowances—\n(i) whether indefinitely or for a fixed period, and\n(ii) whether generally or to a limited extent;\n(e) make provision for a person to carry out, in relation to inter-year utilisation of allowances, all or any of the functions of registrar and overseer;\n(f) make provision imposing, or enabling the imposition of, requirements on waste disposal authorities to provide information in relation to their inter-year utilisation of allowances;\n(g) make provision for an authority to be liable to a penalty if it fails to comply with a requirement imposed on it by or under provision of the kind mentioned in paragraph (f);\n(h) make provision generally in connection with the administration or regulation of inter-year utilisation of allowances;\n(i) make provision for the levying of fees and charges on persons engaged in inter-year utilisation of allowances;\n(j) make provision creating offences for breaches of provisions of regulations under subsection (1).\n(4) In subsection (3) “specified” means specified by, or determined in accordance with, regulations under subsection (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/33/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:58.549393+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."
}