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The Environmental Protection (Disposal of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and other Dangerous Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

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11.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (6), the Department shall make available for public inspection, without charge, and at all reasonable hours, a copy of every inventory and revised inventory which it has compiled.

(2) The copy may be kept in any form but shall be indexed and arranged so that members of the public can readily trace information recorded in it.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (5) and (7), the Department shall keep a register specifying the quantity, origin, nature and PCB content of used PCBs in respect of which copies of consignment notes specifying that information are furnished to it under regulations 5(4), 8(9) or 9(3) of the Special Waste Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(1) by a person in the course of a business concerned with disposal of PCBs.

(4) The register may be kept in any form and may, in particular, comprise copies, or extracts of copies, of consignment notes; but it shall—

(a)be indexed and arranged so that members of the public can readily trace information recorded in it; and

(b)be made available for public inspection, without charge, at all reasonable hours.

(5) Nothing in paragraph (1) or (3) shall require the Department to make available information which—

(a)is capable of being, or must be, treated as confidential for the purposes of regulation 5 of the Environmental Information Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(2); or

(b)would be capable of being, or would have to be, treated as confidential for those purposes if it were information to which those Regulations applied.

(6) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall require the Department to retain an inventory or revised inventory, as the case may be, which has been superseded by a revised inventory once 4 years have elapsed from the date on which the revised inventory or the most recent revised inventory, as the case may be, was compiled.

(7) The register mentioned in paragraphs (3) and (4) shall be kept until 31st December 2010.

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