The Special Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Site records

15.—(1) Any person who makes a deposit of special waste in or on any land shall record the location of each such deposit, shall keep such records until his disposal licence is surrendered or revoked and shall then send the records to the district council for the site.

(2) Such records shall comprise either—

(a)a site plan marked with a grid, or

(b)a site plan with overlays on which deposits are shown in relation to the contours of the site.

(3) Deposits shall be described in such records by reference to the register of consignment notes kept under regulation 14, save that where waste is disposed of—

(a)by pipeline, or

(b)within the curtilage of the premises at which it is produced,

the deposits shall be described by reference to a record of the composition of the waste and the date of its disposal.

(4) In the case of liquid wastes discharged without containers into underground strata or disused workings the record shall comprise only a written statement of the quantity and composition of special waste so discharged and the date of its disposal.

(5) Every record made pursuant to regulation 15 of the Pollution Control (Special Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981(1) shall—

(a)be kept with the records referred to in paragraph (1) for so long as is mentioned in that paragraph, and

(b)shall accompany those records when they are sent to the district council in accordance with that paragraph.