The Waste Management Licensing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Duty to carry out appropriate periodic inspections

13.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5), any establishment or undertaking which carries out the recovery or disposal of controlled waste, or which collects or transports controlled waste on a professional basis, or which arranges for the recovery or disposal of controlled waste on behalf of others (dealers or brokers), and producers of special waste, shall be subject to appropriate periodic inspections by the competent authorities.

(2) In the case of establishments or undertakings handling end of life vehicles (whether or not such vehicles have been depolluted) periodic inspections in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) shall meet the requirements laid down in Article 6(2) of the End of Life Vehicles Directive.

(3) Article 44(1) and (2) of the 1997 Order (power to obtain information) shall have effect as if the provisions of this paragraph were provisions of Part II of that Order and as if, in those Articles, references to the Department or a district council were references to a competent authority.

(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), in the case of the exempt activities referred to in the first column of Table 14, the duty under sub-paragraph (1) shall be discharged by carrying out inspections set out in the second column of that table in respect of any place where the relevant exempted activity is carried on.

(5) Where the notice, plan and fee referred to in regulation 18(3) are received by the Department before 19th June 2004, in respect of exempt activities set out in paragraphs 11, 13, 19, 45 and 46 the Department shall carry out an initial inspection within 9 months of their receipt.

Table 14

Relevant exempt activity*	Inspections required
* numbered by reference to the corresponding paragraph of Part I of Schedule 2
9, 10	An inspection shall be carried out at the time of treatment or, where that is not possible, not later than 4 weeks thereafter.
11, 13, 19, 45, 46	An initial inspection shall be carried out at the time when the exempt activity commences. Thereafter, periodic inspections shall be carried out at intervals not exceeding 12 months.
47	An initial inspection shall be carried out within two months of the receipt by the Department of the notification under Regulation 18(7). Thereafter, periodic inspections shall be carried out at intervals not exceeding 12 months.