6.—(1) A competent authority may request any person required to keep a written description, or a transfer note under regulation 5, to produce the description or note (or a copy) to that authority.
(2) The person must produce the description or note (or the copy) as soon as is reasonably practicable, and in any case—
(a)within 7 days from the date of the request; or
(b)such longer period as is permitted by that authority.
(3) The description or note (or copy) must be—
(a)given to an officer of that authority; or
(b)sent to the address specified by that authority when making the request.
(4) In this regulation, “competent authority” means—
(a)the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; or
(b)a waste collection authority for the purposes of Part 2 of the Act(1).
Section 30(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 has the effect that in Scotland a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39) is a waste collection authority.