The Waste Information (Scotland) Regulations 2010
Scottish Statutory Instrument 2010 No. 435 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 1 December 2010
- In force from
- 10 January 2011
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Health and safety, environment, waste and fisheries
- Made under
- 2000/532/EC, Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009, Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
These Regulations require persons having control or management of undertakings to comply with any request made to them by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (“SEPA”) for information relating to waste associated with that undertaking and which falls within the categories set out in regulation 4. The procedure for making waste information requests is contained in regulation 3 and includes details relating to making of requests to bodies corporate, limited liability partnerships and partnerships. Failure to comply with a waste information request is to be an offence punishable on summary conviction with a fine of up to level 5 on the standard scale (currently £5,000). The information obtained through the making of waste information requests will assist in compliance with Regulation (EC) No. 2150/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste statistics. A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies can be obtained from Scottish Government Environmental Quality Division, Area 1-H North, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.
Offences created by this instrument
- It is an offence for a person— a to fail, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the duty imposed by regulation 5;… regulation 6(1) · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
What Parliament said about it
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