Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and Seizure of Vehicles) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Registration as a carrier

6.—(1) On accepting a person’s application for registration or where following an appeal in respect of such an application it is determined under Article 41(6) of the 1997 Order to register a person, the Department shall make an entry in its register—

(a) showing that person as a registered carrier of controlled waste and allocating him a registration number (which may include any letter);

(b) specifying the date on which the registration takes effect and its date of expiry;

(c) stating any business name of his and the address of his principal place of business (together with any telephone, telex or fax number of his) and, in the case of an individual, his date of birth;

(d) in the case of a body corporate, listing the names of each director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of that body and their respective dates of birth;

(e) in the case of a company within the meaning of Article 3(1) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1), specifying its registered number and, in the case of a company incorporated outside Northern Ireland, the country in which it was incorporated;

(f) in a case where the person who is registered or another relevant person has been convicted of a prescribed offence, giving the person’s name, details of the offence, the date of conviction, the penalty imposed, the name of the Court and, in the case of an individual, his date of birth; and

(g) in a case where the person who is registered or any company in the same group of companies as that person is the holder of a waste management licence or a disposal licence stating the name of the holder of the licence and the name of the authority which granted it.

(2) In the case of a business which is or is to be carried on by a partnership, all the partners shall be registered under one entry and only one registration number shall be allocated to the partnership.

(3) On making an entry in its register under paragraph (1), the Department shall—

(a) issue to the registered person or partnership a certificate of registration free of charge which shall be in the form set out in Schedule 2, and shall contain the information required by that form; and

(b) provide that person or partnership free of charge with a copy of the entry in the register.

(4) In this regulation—

“business name” means a name under which a person carries on business and by virtue of which the Business Names (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(2) applies;

“disposal licence” has the same meaning as in Article 5(1) of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(3); and

“group” has the same meaning as in Article 55(1) of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990(4).

(1)

S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6)

(2)

S.I. 1986/1033 (N.I. 7)

(3)

S.I. 1978/1049 (N.I. 19)

(4)

S.I. 1990/593 (N.I. 5)