Duties of the appropriate authority in relation to registration of small producers
75.—(1) The appropriate authority must grant an application for registration where an applicant—
(a)has complied with the requirements of regulation 16;
(b)is not a member of a producer compliance scheme; and
(c)does not appear in the register of producers maintained by the appropriate authority under regulation 79,
otherwise the appropriate authority must refuse the application.
(2) Where the application for registration is granted, the Secretary of State must, within 28 days of receipt of the application—
(a)confirm to the applicant that he is registered with the appropriate authority; and
(b)subject to paragraph (3), allocate a new producer registration number to the producer and confirm it in writing.
(3) If the applicant appeared on the register maintained under regulation 79 during any of the five previous compliance periods preceding the compliance period during which the application for registration is made, the appropriate authority must, instead of allocating a new producer registration number, allocate the applicant’s most recently allocated producer registration number.