Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and Seizure of Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 21st September 1999.
(2) In these Regulations—
“credit reference agency” has the same meaning as in section 145(8) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974(1);
“date of expiry” means, in relation to a person’s registration as a carrier of controlled waste, the date on which the period of 3 years mentioned in regulation 11(2) expires;
“the 1997 Order” means the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997; and
“prescribed offence” means an offence under a statutory provision listed in Schedule 1.
(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, an application for registration or for the renewal of a registration as a carrier of controlled waste shall be treated as pending—
(a)whilst it is being considered by the Department; or
(b)if it has been refused or the relevant period from the making of the application has expired without the applicant having been registered, whilst either—
(i)the period for appealing in relation to that application has not expired; or
(ii)the application is the subject of an appeal which has not been disposed of.