The Controlled Waste (Registration of Carriers and Seizure of Vehicles) Regulations 1991

Registration as a carrier

6.—(1) On accepting a person’s application for registration or on being directed under section 4(3) of the 1989 Act to register a person following an appeal in respect of such an application, the regulation authority shall make an entry in their 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 place 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 registered under the Companies Acts, specifying its registered number and, in the case of a company incorporated outside Great Britain, the country in which it was incorporated;

(f)in the 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 the 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 authorityt 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 their register under paragraph (1) the regulation authority 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 the form set out in Schedule 3, or in a form substantially to the like effect, and shall contain the information required by that form; and

(b)provide him or them free of charge with a copy of the entry in the register.

(4) In this regulation—

• “Companies Acts” has the same meaning as in section 744 of the Companies Act 1985(1);

• “business name” means a name under which a person carries on business and by virtue of which the Business Name Act(2) applies;

• “disposal licence” has the same meaning as in section 30(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974(3);

• “group” has the same meaning as in section 53(1) of the Companies Act 1989(4); and

• “waste management licence” has the same meaning as in section 35 of the Enviromental Protection Act 1990(5).