Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989

2 Registration of carriers

(1) Subject to section 3 below, the Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for the registration of persons with disposal authorities as carriers of controlled waste and, for that purpose, for the establishment and maintenance by such authorities, in accordance with the regulations, of such registers as may be prescribed.

(2) Regulations under this section may—

(a) make provision with respect to applications for registration;

(b) impose requirements with respect to the manner in which disposal authorities maintain registers of carriers of controlled waste;

(c) provide for the issue of a certificate of registration free of charge to a registered carrier of controlled waste both on his registration and on the making of any alteration of any entry relating to him in a register of such carriers;

(d) provide for such a certificate to be in such form and to contain such information as may be prescribed;

(e) provide that the provision by a disposal authority to a registered carrier of such copies of a certificate of registration as are provided in addition to the certificate provided free of charge in pursuance of provision made by virtue of paragraph (c) above is to be made subject to the payment of a charge imposed under the regulations.

(3) Provision contained in any regulations under this section by virtue of subsection (2)(a) above may, in particular, include provision which—

(a) prescribes the manner of determining the disposal authority to which an application is to be made;

(b) prescribes the form on which and other manner in which an application is to be made;

(c) prescribes the period within which an application for the renewal of any registration which is due to expire is to be made;

(d) imposes requirements with respect to the information which is to be provided by an applicant to the authority to which his application is made;

(e) requires disposal authorities to impose charges in respect of their consideration of applications.

(4) Provision contained in any regulations under this section by virtue of subsection (2)(b) above may, in particular, include provision—

(a) specifying or describing the information to be incorporated in any register maintained by a disposal authority in pursuance of any such regulations;

(b) requiring a registered carrier of controlled waste to notify a disposal authority which maintains such a register of any change of circumstances affecting information contained in the entry relating to that carrier in that register;

(c) requiring a disposal authority, to such extent and in such manner as may be prescribed, to make the contents of any such register available for public inspection free of charge; and

(d) requiring such an authority, on payment of such charges as may be imposed under the regulations, to provide such copies of the contents of any such register to any person applying for a copy as may be prescribed.

(5) Subsections (2) to (4) above are without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above.