15.—(1) Without prejudice to any accompanying documents required under other relevant provisions, no person shall carry out a shipment to which these Regulations apply within the United Kingdom unless it is accompanied by the application made under the Directive for authorisation, the necessary approvals for the shipment and the authorisation or, where a shipment is made by rail, those documents are available to the chief inspector.
(2) Where, in relation to a shipment to which these Regulations apply, the United Kingdom is the country of destination, the consignee shall within 15 days of receipt of the radioactive waste send the chief inspector an acknowledgment of receipt using the appropriate standard document.
(3) Where the chief inspector receives an acknowledgment of receipt sent to him under paragraph (2), he shall send copies of that acknowledgment to the competent authorities of the other countries involved in the operation.